The costs of environmentally unsustainable water use must be quantified.

Unsustainable use of freshwater is the top priority transboundary concern for the largest number of regions.

Iraq contends that any degradation was caused by other factors, such as overgrazing and unsustainable land use.

More than 80 of all endangered birds and mammals are threatened by unsustainable land use resulting from agricultural expansion.

Reforming subsidies that encourage unsustainable water use could encourage water conservation and investments in water saving technologies and practices.

Rapid population growth, unsustainable water use and increasing pollution levels further contribute to water scarcity problems in the region.

Environmentally unsustainable water use has a disproportionate impact on women and children, whose needs must be accorded the highest priority.

Unsustainable Development Goals

Rio s Unsustainable Nonsense

The unsustainable patterns of production and use of POPs and persistent toxic substances (PTSs) are causing serious damage to human health and environment.

Sustaining the Unsustainable Eurozone

This is always unsustainable.

But this policy is unsustainable.

The situation is clearly unsustainable.

The situation in the ministry is unsustainable.

That model, we have learned, is unsustainable.

However, the pressure on staff is unsustainable.

Equally worrying is Africa's unsustainable debt burden.

After centuries of unsustainable use, as well as rapidly escalating forest destruction since 1950, less than 60,000 km2 (23,000 sq mi) or 10 of Madagascar's land area remains forested.

The US budget deficit is enormous and unsustainable.

That pace of employment growth now appears unsustainable.

Asia must leapfrog the unsustainable stage of development.

Unsustainable claims should not be made for it.

Unsustainable development patterns can generate new disaster risks.

Poverty is also closely related to inappropriate spatial distribution of population, to unsustainable use and inequitable distribution of such natural resources as land and water, and to serious environmental degradation (para.

(b) More sustainable energy production. In order to escape from this unsustainable situation, farmers in Kenya are making significant efforts to use available sources of energy in a more sustainable way.

They understand that their countries fiscal positions are unsustainable.

But China s rulers know that this situation is unsustainable.

Unstable and unsustainable configurations must come to an end.

The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.

Environmentalists point out that this production method is unsustainable.

The situation became unsustainable and a civil war began.

Unsustainable management practices can also be a contributing factor.

A year ago, most pundits argued that this was unsustainable.

This unsustainable process came to a crashing halt in 2008.

Private and public debt levels are high and possibly unsustainable.

By contrast, today s road transportation system is inconvenient, unsustainable, and dangerous.

It results in mass unemployment that is inefficient and financially unsustainable.

A one size fits all approach to integration is simply unsustainable.

CAMBRIDGE The United States current fiscal and monetary policies are unsustainable.

Unsustainable processes of development had exerted tremendous pressure on natural resources and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, especially in the industrialized countries, were threatening the fragility of the natural environment.

We can apply this reasoning to the United States unsustainable fiscal deficit.

And, without a return to growth, its debt burden will remain unsustainable.

These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

But it was only a matter of time before that performance became unsustainable.