Traduction de «stress hydrique du sol » (Français → Anglais) :

If widely implemented, they could go a long way towards helping to solve water scarcity problems, e.g. by better analysing structural and episodic categories of water stress and providing better insights for water resource indicators.

34. Calls for greater awareness of the possible impact of climate change on the duration of droughts, on water stress affecting particular regions and on the reduced accessibility of water resources needed in everyday life;

14. Fears that growing demand for biomass exacerbates food insecurity in developing countries through diversion of crops and lands away from food production, deprivation of land-use rights and impoverishment as a result of land-grabs and exacerbation of food price volatility; points out that the demand for biofuels is already one of the drivers for land acquisitions in developing countries, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa; recalls that, due to these land acquisitions, indigenous people lose their access to land, and thereby their access to food and water; also underlines that, while MDGs set a target of cutting by half the number of people without safe access to water by 2015, water-consuming bio-economy activities can aggrav ...[+++]ate water stress in developing countries and thereby contribute to widespread food scarcity; urges the EU to follow the recommendation of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food on agro-ecology in order to achieve food security, while addressing climate change;

E. whereas Europe is abstracting around 13 % of its total available freshwater, which is already showing signs of water stress, and whereas in many places in Europe water abstraction is going beyond sustainable levels, threatening wildlife, the safety of supply to society and different economic uses, and whereas in some regions of southern Europe the water exploitation index has risen by over 40 % with high levels of water stress;

D. whereas Europe is abstracting around 13 % of its total available freshwater, which is already showing signs of water stress, and whereas in many places in Europe water abstraction is going beyond sustainable levels, threatening wildlife, the safety of supply to society and different economic uses, and whereas in some regions of southern Europe the water exploitation index has risen by over 40 % with high levels of water stress;

8. Advocates funding for the establishment of forestry policies introducing preventive forestry measures based on the planting of species of tree, shrub and vegetation that are resistant to drought stress and to soils which have suffered degradation over time, thanks to damaging agricultural practices such as the burning of stubble alongside roads, streams and ditches;