Using hot water to manage hydrates could mean a lot more water to deal with on the surface.
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Cognizant of the need for water managers, government leaders, civil society and businesses to work together to sustainably manage water under uncertainty and risk in an integrated and coordinated manner, UNESCO is hosting the Future Forum on "Global Water Futures 2050" at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 12 April 2012.
The workers were constructing a mining operation underground when they were hit by a high-pressure release of grout, said Bronson Mack of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, a cooperative public agency formed in 1991 to manage the water resources in a region that includes Las Vegas.
Stuxnet is tailored to target weaknesses in Siemens systems used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other utilities.
"In many parts of the country, water is absolutely more valuable than gold, " says fish habitat and water consultant Shannon Skelton, who runs CFI Global Fisheries Management, a company that helps landowners manage their water assets.
Finding ways to conserve and manage the water that is available is vitally important.
Afghanistan's vast mountain ranges capture enough rain water, but farmers manage to harness only 12-15% of it.
Meanwhile, several logistics and information technology start-ups like PurFresh and Nova Analytics are implementing new systems to help executives manage potential water-shortage crises more effectively.
Also, if the U.S. and China economies manage to hold water in 2012, that could bode well for Brazil.
After independence, nine countries in the Niger River Basin in Africa created a joint river basin authority to cooperatively manage their joint water resources.
But the Woodlands residents would still need to form an association to manage and pay for water lines and hookups.
But many companies do not yet have an energy strategy, let alone broader sustainability strategies to manage the use of water, land, and other resources.
The realisation that the effects of land-use changes in the Thames catchment take more than 30 years to show themselves fully has profound implications for policies to monitor and manage the river's water quality.
We will also look at trade effluent because it is the dirty water and normally needs to be licensed and manage very carefully.
As the wind picks up, the grand old lady drives her rail deep into the water, making it perilous for crew to manage the running backstays that keep the mast upright.
At these depths, everything must be done with remote-control robots that install the blowout preventers, submersible pumps and other devices to manage the flow of oil and water on the ocean floor.
It has only to look across the water to Europe to see how failure to manage the withdrawal of stimulus in an orderly manner can push economies back into recession, making it that much harder to tackle the ultimate goal of lowering government debt.
Receiving the most buzz however seemed to be the GE Nucleus, a home energy monitoring system that uses Brillion Technology to work with smart meters and help homeowners manage electricity consumption (and eventually water, natural gas, and renewable energy consumption after software upgrades).
This allows the island nation to effectively manage a closed loop on industrialized and urbanized water.
The crippled plant's owner is still trying to manage hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive water used to cool the reactors, and scientists believe some of that is still seeping into the Pacific.
"It's really a struggle to manage those evacuation centres, there's a shortage of water and a shortage of food, " he said.
Mark Pilcher from the Environment Agency said the water was currently rising at a rate which is "faster than the pumps could manage" and that there was a risk "a small amount may be discharged".
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The scheme is an agri-environment scheme, which provides funding for farmers to manage their land in a way designed to benefit biodiversity and landscape features and improve the quality of water and soil.
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