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Economic activities depend on access to ecological resources including water, biomass and fossil fuels.
UNESCO: Resource limits and their implications for economic policy | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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So it makes no sense for politicians to allocate great swathes to golf courses, especially given ecological concerns -- primarily over water use -- that accompany their operational capacity and the association with the wealthy elite.
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This is where recognition of the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands as regulators of water regimes comes into its own.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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The importance of underground water for supporting business and ecological systems is assume along with all contradictory aspects.
UNESCO: OFFICE IN TASHKENT
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The world will regret having spent so much time debating global warming while the real ecological threat, access to cheap safe water, becomes obvious.
FORBES: Twenty Trends For The 2010s
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Economists still do not adequately capture ecological and social values when they plan new infrastructure or design water-trading systems.
ECONOMIST: Intelligent communication
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"The issue is that dumping impoverished peasants on geometrically-plotted patches of virgin non-arable land, without any infrastructure, tillage equipment, venture capital, housing, water supplies, or training will result quite simply in an ecological disaster, " says Professor du Toit.
BBC: Zimbabwe wildlife 'face disaster'
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The Water Framework Directive will require all rivers, lakes and canals to be returned to "good ecological quality" within 15 years - and the measure of quality will be far tougher than it is now.
BBC: English and Welsh rivers 'improving'