The great aquifers that supply water for irrigation are being depleted.

And, in many places, oil supplies are declining as old oil fields are depleted.

Soil nutrients are being depleted, soil moisture is falling, temperatures are rising, and disease pressures are worsening.

Even worse, farmers are now relying on groundwater that is being depleted by over pumping.

Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

Carbon dioxide emissions have been growing fast, fossil fuel resources are being depleted rapidly, and global warming has accelerated.

Traditional fisheries are rapidly being depleted as local laws are changed to commercialize publicly owned fisheries for the benefit of large industrial vessels.

As prime food sources are depleted, the harvest goes deeper into the oceans and brings in more such sources of protein.

Palestinian households living behind the Barrier have depleted their coping strategies.

Fearing a weaker peso, spooked investors demand dollars. Capital is flowing out of the country, and official reserves are slowly being depleted.

At the same time, replacement of the depleted trees is not forthcoming.

But the state s coffers are dangerously depleted, and France now finds itself among the many countries whose debt burden compromises the eurozone s existence.

At the core of these beliefs are traditions that allowed sea turtles to be consumed as food but prevented them from being depleted.

62 30. Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium

Hunting depleted one horned rhino numbers to near extinction in the early 20th century.

If on the outside, the depleted batteries can be quickly swapped with recharged batteries.

Third, we face steeply rising prices for fossil fuels, as developing countries growth drives up demand and conventional supplies of coal, oil, and gas are depleted.

Once particles are lost to the atmosphere from the radiation belts, under quiet conditions new ones replace them only slowly, and the loss cone becomes depleted.

Rebuilding the depleted balance sheets of the banking system is the right way to go.

Cameroon, for example, has depleted much of its oil, using the revenues overwhelmingly for consumption.

Most importantly, the Nigerians are taking measures to ensure that the fruits of this endowment are invested, so that as the country's natural resources are depleted, its real wealth fixed and human capital is increased.

After many returns to the inner Solar System, cometary nuclei become depleted in volatile materials and thus are much less bright than comets which are making their first passage through the Solar System.

Smallscale fishermen are finding their fisheries depleted by foreign industrial scale vessels encouraged by heavy subsidies local seafood consumers face rising prices and shortages, and native peoples are losing their traditional fishing grounds.

Once the battery charge is depleted, it will have to be recharged through a power outlet.

LIDLIP made an oral presentation on depleted uranium that had been dumped in Iraq and Kosovo.

The scope for cross borrowing is limited, as reserves are often depleted and cross borrowing is restricted to the unobligated cash available in the accounts of closed peacekeeping missions.

In animal studies, hepatic glutathione must be depleted to less than 70 of normal levels before hepatotoxicity occurs.

Employment in fisheries in many countries is projected to grow again over the coming decades as depleted stocks recover.

The use of depleted uranium (DU) in munitions is controversial because of questions about potential long term health effects.

Yes, Russia has enormous gold and currency reserves, but they are being depleted fast. They will not last for long while being spent mostly in defense of the ruble at the current pace.

Available reserves will increasingly be concentrated in the Middle East simply because supplies in all other regions will be depleted sooner.

The island is hit regularly by devastating hurricanes. It has been massively deforested, and its soils have been depleted of nutrients.

Through the next month his original force of 450 was depleted by desertion until it was no longer a fighting force.

Iraq states that the volumes of groundwater alleged to have been depleted are theoretical because Jordan took measures to reduce per capita consumption and re profiled its infrastructure investment programme to meet the new demand.

Serum amylase may be normal (in 10 of cases) for cases of acute or chronic pancreatitis (depleted acinar cell mass) and hypertriglyceridemia.

In the rapid growth of the Internet, the pool of unassigned Class B addresses (214, or about 16,000) was rapidly being depleted.

The depleted economy had lost the gains it had achieved during 15 years of growth, and as a result, poverty was widespread.

There are at least 500,000 internally displaced persons in Côte d'Ivoire, more than 80 per cent of whom are living with host communities that have now depleted their reserves and no longer have the coping mechanisms to deal with this additional burden.

Third, we have already used up many of the low cost options that were once available. Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

Taking into consideration the potential harmful effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium on human health and the environment,

The German army's manpower had been severely depleted after four years of war, and its economy and society were under great internal strain.

On rapidly growing crops, tests have indicated that, while oxygen levels remain adequate, nitrogen may be depleted over the length of the gully.

Light water more specifically refers to deuterium depleted water (DDW), water in which the deuterium content has been reduced below the standard level.

High seas MPAs would aid the recovery of depleted and overfished fish stocks thereby creating employment and ensuring food security for coastal communities.

And it declined very fast a classic boom and bust fishery, which suggests that a stock has been depleted or there's low reproductive rates.