Likewise, Fig. 2 shows that each of the river basins 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 has up over 50% of their groundwater resources in bad to very bad quality.
This is the case of, for example, Loukkos (1), Sebou (2), Boureg Reg (4) and Tensift (6) river basins whose surface water resources in bad to very bad quality account for about 91, 29, 35 and 34%, respectively, of their total resources.
Although the Salzkammergut has long been settled because of its salt resources, Bad Ischl, Gmunden, and Ebensee are the only towns of any size in it.
The other three are being landlocked, especially when the neighbouring countries are also poor; abundant natural resources; and bad governance.
Sunk cost fallacy – the error of throwing good money (or, in this case, scientific resources) after bad – certainly plays a role.
Because externalities are not accounted for in the costs and prices of the free market, market agents will receive the wrong signals and allocate resources toward bad externalities and away from good externalities.
Building a bomb is a matter of money, industrial resources and bad judgment; every nation that has undertaken to build an atomic bomb has succeeded on the first try.
He takes aim at global aid, arguing that with the exception of some health programmes it generally does more harm than good (a critique made long ago by Peter Bauer of the London School of Economics).Mr Deaton argues that the main barrier to progress in poor countries is not lack of resources but bad governments.
For companies both large and small, projects will consume resources — until bad code practices are eliminated.
Anthony Ashton, South Yorkshire Police's traffic management officer, said the gates would free police resources during bad weather as officers would no longer have to be present at points where the Woodhead Pass was closed.
