And climate change has already started to profoundly impact the availability, distribution, and quality of water.

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Once BLM ends its sales of helium as required by current law, the impact on the availability and price for helium is expected to be significant.

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It suggests that the impact on human health, the availability of food and water, the loss of coastlines becomes progressively worse as the average temperature of the planet rises.

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"The availability of cheap alcohol has had a serious impact on health and anti-social behaviour and is an ongoing issue for Pubs of Ulster and indeed the wider community, " he said.

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In particular, the impact of the credit crunch, by restricting the availability of mortgage finance, is having a negative effect on demand in both Europe and America.

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He said the findings would impact on drug policies, because they suggested reducing or eliminating the availability of cannabis would be "unlikely to make a dent" in the hard drug problem.

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Last weeks outage only affected EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone, so those customers running with adequate capacity in other Availability Zones in the US East Region were able to tolerate the event with limited impact to their applications.

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Not least, he says that the impact of the outage could have been reduced if clients had been using more than one availability zone to run their cloud businesses.

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