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Additionally, agricultural production is also lost due to water depletion.

In recent years, however, experts have become increasingly alarmed at the rate of water depletion in the state.

The major reason for the water depletion is the absence of micro irrigation systems and the intensive farming during the 1980s and 1990s.

The destruction of a marsh or swamp often causes such problems as increased flooding, ground water depletion, and loss of wildlife.

In some areas, aggressive irrigation has caused this inflow to decrease significantly, causing water depletion and a shrinking of the lake.

The environmental threats that pose the most harm toward the Great Plains include water depletion, land degradation, and increasing temperature change.

Today due to urbanization and ground water depletion, palm oases are retracting and disappearing.

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There is also a constant danger of roving war machines and threats like water depletion, yet despite all this, life is still in quite good shape.

In the state of Tamil Nadu, rainwater harvesting was made compulsory for every building to avoid ground water depletion.

Sundquist points out that large areas of croplands are lost year after year, due mainly to soil erosion, water depletion and urbanisation.

The Queensland lungfish can live for several days out of water if kept moist, but will not survive total water depletion, unlike its African counterparts.

Decreased proximal reabsorption of sodium, magnesium, and potassium occur as a result of salt and water depletion that is caused by cellular dehydration and hypotension.

Even resources such as water, needed in huge amounts for grain production, can have serious environmental impact, including ground water depletion, pollution runoff, and algae blooms from waste runoff.

Gravity variations detected by GRACE include those caused by changes in ocean currents; runoff and ground water depletion; melting ice sheets and glaciers.

Facing up to climate change and other environmental emergencies such as peak oil, water depletion, land-use changes and biodiversity loss will transform society both in the UK and globally.

Because low-carbohydrate diets cause the accumulation of ketones in your blood, they may cause the abnormal metabolism of insulin, impaired liver and kidney function, and salt and water depletion.

In Sivaganga District of Tamil Nadu state there were several protests and rallies opposing the proposed Coca-Cola bottling plant in fear of water depletion and contamination.

The Ehrlichs find evidence for concern in such examples of environmental degradation and resource exhaustion as global warming, acid rain, topsoil erosion, ground water depletion, destruction of the ozone layer, desertification and deforestation.

In an obituary of Mr. Reisner published yesterday, The San Francisco Chronicle called it "an angry indictment of water depletion in the American West" and "the seminal text on the West's perennial water wars."

It hopes, through its efforts, to eventually help improve visible signs of urban decay such as traffic congestion, record-breaking air pollution, an overextended health care system, overdevelopment of agricultural land, water depletion, reduced energy conservation, and school and prison overcrowding.

Burdens on the Environment The continued growth in India and China contributes to an intensifying crisis in ecological and human resources in large areas of Asia, where land is being rapidly degraded by overuse, water supplies are under strain and agriculture must struggle to stay ahead of soil and water depletion.

"The political and strategic impact of surging populations, spreading disease, deforestation and soil erosion, water depletion, air pollution and, possibly, rising sea levels in critical, overcrowded regions like the Nile Delta and Bangladesh - developments that will prompt mass migrations and, in turn, incite group conflicts - will be the core foreign policy challenge."