Sentence examples for vulnerability to water from inspiring English sources

It is this same vulnerability to water damage that makes the pipe systems corrode in old homes long before the outer frames deteriorate.

It also offers a more detailed view of how poverty, particularly in areas near the Equator, creates zones of extreme vulnerability to water shortages, droughts, flooding rains and severe storms — all of which are projected to be more frequent or intense if concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to build.

Integrated water management approaches that recognize and incorporate informality are needed to reduce vulnerability to water scarcity and flooding.

Warmer, drier trends in climate over the twenty-four year period of this study signaled that atmospheric conditions were becoming more conducive to forest vulnerability to water stress and disturbances (Figure 2).

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.

The study also explored adaptation measures, concluding that increases in power plant efficiency and switches in cooling sources would reduce most regions' vulnerability to water constraints as would improved cross-sectoral water management during drought periods.

Nonetheless, they are commonly characterized by their vulnerability to water-quality impairment.

This study supports findings which found that natural immunity in women is suppressed especially during pregnancy making them vulnerability to water-borne illness (such as caused by unhygienic water sources), which is exacerbated by inefficient health care systems and services.

Because of the vastness of the PICTs and the range of climatic and environmental conditions experienced, each community's risk and vulnerability to water-related hazards will vary in both space and time (Parsons et al. 2010).

For example, a study of children's vulnerability to water-related disease hazard in northern Pakistan conducted by a researcher from an American institution included observations with 30 households on details of household structure, household decision making, divisions of labor, child care, and recent illness events (Halvorson 2003).

Although karst aquifers occur in a wide variety of settings with varying characteristics, they are generally subject to rapid changes in flow and discharge, a high degree of surface-water/groundwater interaction, and extreme vulnerability to water-quality impairment (Lindsey et al. 2009).