Scattered showers...

Consumer goods?

MORE CONSUMER GOODS?

Over 30 days with heavy rains per year.

Today, many large rivers have reduced flows. Some dry up altogether.

Heavy rains inundated many provinces of Thailand for several months.

Fourthly, China has increased its carbon sinks by promoting reforestation.

Flash flooding is possible with rapidly deteriorating conditions due to the scattered nature of tropical rain.

They also produce toxic run off that pollutes our rivers, our oceans, and us.

Hot spells, cold snaps or heavy rains during vulnerable periods could cause whole crops to be lost.

The summer often reaches its hottest point during the months of June July, with a mean daily temperature of and often days over .

Here's a building at Oberlin College we designed that makes more energy than it needs to operate and purifies its own water.

In January 2005, torrential rains caused severe flooding in the densely populated coastal regions of Guyana, including the capital, Georgetown.

Heavy rains in the Khatlon region further damaged the infrastructure that had already been adversely affected by high levels of snowfall.

During the night of 26 August 1994, heavy showers, with disastrous consequences, fell on practically the whole territory of the country.

So, in the U.S. we have more stuff than ever before, but polls show that our national happiness is actually declining.

(b) Water Effluent is collected in sump tanks, then treated and sampled before final discharge from the complex

President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisors Chairman said that The American economy's ultimate purpose is to produce more consumer goods.

Water tables are dropping where farmers are lucky enough to have wells, and rainfall has become increasingly unpredictable.

Rains in March and April particularly affected Oruzgan, Ghazni and Jowzjan provinces, notably resulting in the bursting of the Ghazni dam on 29 March.

Until 1961, the refinery used to discharge its industrial wastes into the bay without cleaning, which led to significant pollution of the water sources as well as of the coastal areas of both the Saymonov and the Turkmenbashi bays.

The Committee noted that water resource management was closely linked to forestry and that satellite data on forests constituted an important input to understanding of the water cycle.

There is even a scene involving human excrement that is both revolting and hilarious.

From the regional causal chain analysis, it appears that agricultural run off and municipal and industrial discharges are the most prevalent pollution sources.

As evident in this slide from Lake Nabugabo in Uganda, the agricultural runoff from this crop, which goes into these buckets, is the sole source of drinking, cooking and bathing water for this village.

Other countries included the Islamic Republic of Iran (Bam earthquake), Morocco (Al Hoceima earthquake), Namibia, Grenada, Haiti and Guyana (floods), and the Philippines, Pakistan and Nepal (storms and flash floods).

He said Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption.

Concerned that Malawi continues to face natural catastrophes such as drought, floods and heavy rains, causing serious crop failure, loss of life and extensive damage to property and infrastructure,

Slumdog Millionaire was filmed in large part with small hand held digital cameras on location in Dharavi, Mumbai s (and Asia s) biggest slum, and does not skip the mounds of garbage, cesspits, and overflowing drains.

If there's an emergency and you lose all of the power to your nuclear power plant, the little blower stops blowing, the frozen plug of salt melts, and the liquid fluoride fuel inside the reactor drains out of the vessel through the line and into another tank called a drain tank.