water resources scarcity

基本解释

Land disposal of wastewater can help for alleviating the situation of water resources scarcity and water pollution.
污水灌溉土地处理系统具有高效利用水资源和减少水污染的双重意义。
With the development of the economic society, the contradiction on water resources scarcity and water environment pollution is becoming prominent at present.
随着经济社会的日益发展，水资源短缺、水环境污染的矛盾愈来愈突出。
Water resources scarcity, lower water use efficiency (WUE) and soil desertification are the main factors restricting the sustainable development of agriculture in irrigated oasis of Hexi corridor.
水资源短缺、水分利用效率低下、土地荒漠化是制约河西地区农业持续发展的主要因素。

Second, worsening scarcity of critical resources like clean water, clean air, electric power, and land (and increasing oversupply of traffic, pollution, and greenhouse gases).
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It also means that whereas population growth may not be a global problem, it could often be a very nasty local one, causing conflict over local resources, especially water, and privation when politics (frequently) or natural disaster (occasionally) cause local scarcity or epidemic disease even within a wider world of abundance and improving health.
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