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.

And it is largely an issue that we've created for ourselves through unsustainable use of scarce resources.

It was recognized that inefficient and unsustainable use of natural resources and environmental degradation, whether caused by rapid population growth, poverty, or unsustainable consumption patterns, could constrain prospects for socio economic development.

Unsustainable Development Goals

Rio s Unsustainable Nonsense

This is unsustainable.

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.

Sustaining the Unsustainable Eurozone

This is always unsustainable.

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

But this policy is unsustainable.

The situation is clearly unsustainable.

Unsustainable land use practices constitute one of the major threats to sustainable food production on much of the Earth's marginally productive lands.

This is a completely unsustainable pattern.

So this whole industry is unsustainable.

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

Poverty has contributed to unsustainable agricultural practices and environmentally harmful use of our forest resources, which, in turn, have led to drought and desertification.

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.

Unsustainable levels of resource exploitation should be brought down, and fairer use should be made of shared resources, including the atmosphere and the high seas.

Such factors as population growth, over grazing and unsustainable use of rangeland, the use of wood and plants for fuel and the uncoordinated exploitation of water resources have contributed to land degradation and desertification.

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.

What this means is our economy is unsustainable.

Direct investments in specific land uses to support the economies of marginal regions may offer cost effective solutions to the problems caused by unsustainable land use.

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.

What I'm saying is our approach is simply unsustainable.

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.