The panel discussion brought together High-level expert officials from both Member States and international bodies, with broad experience in addressing water and disasters, to share experiences and lessons on how to prepare for large-scale water disasters, including droughts.
Australian Oil and Gas pumps oil in Libya, while logistics firm Korea Express is taking over a large-scale water project in the North African country.
This panel discussion will bring together High-level expert officials who have had broad experience in addressing disasters to share their experiences and lessons on how governments should prepare for large-scale water disasters, including droughts.
The widespread adoption of water mills on a scale never seen in Roman times led not only to a wider range of uses for water power, but an increase in other forms of mechanisation.
When the process is done for real on a large scale, the treated water will first get pumped into a reservoir for further refinement, because of health department concerns that the process may not be completely effective.
The World Water Assessment Programme is both global and local in scale, for it must check the accuracy of the big picture on the basis of snapshots of water in the field.
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They're now engaged in assessing the scale of the disaster and distributing water and rice to stricken areas.
More than one million people, it says, will be supplied this summer with water from Britain's first large-scale desalination plant in east London.
The fear of lack of control and dreadful consequences overwhelm any sense of the abstract economic benefits of nuclear power, and images of workers in protection suits and news of elevated radiation levels in food and water further fuel antinuclear sentiment on a global scale.
The gravity-based system responded as it was designed to, circulating water and steam in a continuous loop to keep the scale-model reactor at a safe temperature automatically.
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That changed a lot when the heat of fire was used for boiling water into steam to drive industry, which became large scale and controlled by a few people with countless labourers and employees, whose smaller scale business had come to be totally outcompeted and had no choice but to accept the working conditions that suited these new tycoons.
In a full-scale tokamak this heat would be tapped to boil water, which would then drive steam turbines to generate electricity.
As a result, gas industry projects in Texas had to scale back, as energy producers scrambled to find sufficient water.
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They quickly learned that they needed to scale back too everything from taking shorter showers to save on water, to holding off on new clothes to using their own money if they wanted extras (like a trip to the drive-thru).
While large-scale desalination is not uncommon in those parts of the world where natural water resources are scarce -- such as Texas and Australia -- the UAE is by some margin, according to Iannelli, the industry's most active player.
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The lack of progress has led a number of Baltic countries to consider technological interventions, or so-called "geoengineering" ideas (large-scale solutions to environmental problems), such as pumping oxygen into the water, and using chemicals to bind pollutants in sediments, in a bid to save the Baltic.
The sequence of woodland vistas, the revelations of scale and distance, light and dark, building and nature, land and water, as one approaches the entrance, were superbly orchestrated by Wright.
Now, rural regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd has launched a project to revive small-scale hydro-electric power production in rural Denbighshire, launching feasibility studies for using water power on the Dee at Llangollen, and on the Alyn at Llandegla and Loggerheads.
Indeed, on the tiny residential scale think about how much energy is wasted when you heat up a whole kettle of water to make just one cup of tea.
Part Gothic cathedral, part Teutonic fortress, part sultan's palace, its roofline is a riot of spires, beehive water towers and gaudily tiled domes, and its flanks are decorated with heraldic symbols and heroic-scale frescoes of the hospital's benefactors.
Scale is not a huge advantage on the manufacturing side of its business, which involves blending water, gas and a special syrup.
The idea of turning waste water into drinking water may see repulsive to some, but experts say it's already being done elsewhere on a smaller scale.
Rising sea levels, salination of fresh water, droughts, floods... the maths of future climate impacts are inexact, but on a global scale the costs are likely to rise, not fall - and by far more than the costs borne by highly profitable Chinese airlines as they fly inside the EU's climate policy umbrella.
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