Though a member of the Iraqi National Accord, a secular party led by Iyad Allawi, Iraq's first prime minister after the fall of Saddam Hussein, she expresses a rather religious view of politics, calling on divine intervention to fix such problems as patchy electricity and water supplies, high unemployment and war-damaged buildings.
Today, she and her children live under a blue tarp tent with patchy electricity, no running water and few physical assets to their name.
We found that representation of environmental values of water is patchy in most applications, and there should be systematic consideration of the scope of environmental values to include and how they should be valued.
Unfortunately, directly observed data on water is patchy at best, non-existent at worst.
The peri-urban area was transitional between the urban and rural settings and had pockets of farming and a patchy distribution of piped water and electricity.
A similar intermittent pattern of intensive and extensive movement has been observed in filter-feeding basking sharks feeding on patchy zooplankton in shelf waters [23], in foraging leatherback turtles [24] and wandering albatrosses [3], and is reminiscent of birds that stopover to feed and rest during annual migrations [25].
The number should rise, he hopes, to 10m by the end of the year.Too far from farm to forkThe biggest impediment may be lousy infrastructure: crumbling roads and patchy supplies of electricity and water.
With wild grazers and domestic livestock depending on the same key resources, and pastoralists using mobility and migration strategies that closely parallel those whereby wildlife make the most of patchy and unpredictable grazing and water, there are synergies to be found.
Tridacna maxima clams were abundant on the line and patch reefs in <10 m water, though highly patchy in distribution (Figure 3F).
Throughout their range cardinals inhabit brushy open habitat, and prior to European settlement this ecotonal species lived in a sea of eastern hardwood forest where suitable habitat was patchy and ephemeral, created by water courses, tree falls, and fires.
