Sentence examples for Water shortfall from inspiring English sources

City officials have said that without a new source Wichita could face a water shortfall in 15 years.

Within a decade, farmers could face a water shortfall of 115bn litres a year – almost half of the 240bn litres they currently use – with the south and east of the country, where most crops are grown, likely to be hit particularly hard.

Poorly designed and weakly enforced water allocation methods continue to result in agriculture sector underperformance and periodic food shortages when water shortfalls occur.

Our findings demonstrate that farmers with low well yields are forced to forgo significant production and profits because instantaneous groundwater supply is insufficient to buffer surface water shortfalls in drought years.

What's more, the report notes, even if the right mix of adaptation strategies were adopted, the Colorado River Basin would still be highly vulnerable to droughts and water shortfalls in a certain portion of years.

In a 2006 study we estimated that cost overruns and delays would reduce the project's probability of economic feasibility to around 35% at best.Feasible or not, dry-season water shortfalls will cost $11 billion-19 billion (present value) in revenues over the long-term.

The Chinese government estimates that $28 billion was lost in industrial output in 2003 because of water shortfalls; further glitches could disable China's manufacturing machine.

Fourteen of the 33 countries most likely to suffer water shortfalls are in the region, including nine that are considered extremely susceptible: Bahrain, Kuwait, Palestine, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Lebanon.

The potential water supply shortfall coincides with a predicted doubling in demand for water for power generation over the next 40 years.

The probable water deficit for China is more manageable on paper — a shortfall of 200 billion cubic meters — but 21 percent of the country's surface water resources are unfit even for farming, which consumes about 70 percent of the country's water.

Using a decision-scaling framework, the tool allows the user to perform a climate stress test to evaluate the performance and vulnerability to water supply shortfalls of local reservoir systems over a wide range of potential climate change scenarios using a generic systems model.