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Their lifeline is the sea, from which food, medical supplies, and other aid arrives.
It carries 90% of the humanitarian assistance delivered by the WFP, which in turn supplies nearly 90% of the aid that feeds so many Somalis.
The WFP has stockpiled sufficient supplies to keep relief flowing for some days.
It is a relationship founded largely on Chinese dependence on Russian energy supplies, mutual support for “spheres of influence” as the conceptual foundation of an alternative world order, and joint naval exercises in the Black Sea.
Today’s blood supplies, often donated by volunteers, can be contaminated with HIV and other infectious agents.
Chile has no oil or gas, and no one in the neighborhood will sell it any, so it has to buy its supplies from as far away as Indonesia.
Most supplies headed for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan move through the Incirlik airbase in Turkey.
Thus, in contrast to the West’s temporizing, the strategy of Assad’s allies is clearly defined: military victory for the regime, backed by ample supplies of weapons and, in the case of Iran, Lebanese proxy troops from Hezbollah on the ground.
All countries are concerned about security of energy supplies as reserves of fossil fuels dwindle, as well as about the sometimes wild fluctuations in the price of oil, coal, and gas.
As a result of increasing supplies, US natural-gas prices have declined by two-thirds since 2008 and are likely to remain significantly lower than prices in the rest of the world at least through 2020.
Should China cut off those supplies, under the legal fig leaf of “export restraint,” US companies would be unable, at least in the short term, to find alternative sources that could cover all of their needs.
Attacks on installations have often escalated to the point that overall supplies are significantly reduced and less secure.
They drain water supplies, account for almost 70% of global energy use, and generate more than 70% of greenhouse-gas emissions.
This is a main goal of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, which has warned of the unprecedented pressures that economic growth will impose in coming decades on infrastructure (especially transportation), housing, waste disposal (especially of hazardous substances), and energy supplies.
A halving of available water supplies could turn these tensions into open hostilities.
At the same time, India's growing population will make increasing demands on water supplies - mainly for agriculture, which absorbs more than 80% of all the fresh water India consumes.
Doing what has to be done to ensure sustainable water supplies - controlling pollution, encouraging conservation, regulating and charging where necessary - is politically tough.
Saving Resources to Save GrowthNEW YORK – Reconciling global economic growth, especially in developing countries, with the intensifying constraints on global supplies of energy, food, land, and water is the great question of our time.
Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for headline items like food and energy, but for metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial inputs to growth, because increased demand is pushing up against limited global supplies.
(Farmers have been promised cheap electricity for years – so cheap that private-sector power supplies are loath to make new investments.)
Europe needs energy supplies from Central Asia, and Central Asia needs European investment.
For Australia – a land not only of endless sunny beaches, but also of endless supplies of fossil fuels – this is a remarkable development.
Ukraine’s energy needs, and thus the certainty of energy supplies across Europe, will never be secure as long as gas transit is in the hands of secretive companies with unknown owners.
But the risk to EU gas supplies shows that our fates are linked.
The proposed Baltic Sea pipeline, which would bring gas to Germany directly from Russia, bypassing Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the rest of Central Europe, is dangerous in this regard, because it may allow Gazprom the freedom to cut gas supplies to customers without endangering supplies to its favored western markets.
Today’s crisis over gas supplies must not be overblown.
Only by clearly articulating and defending Ukraine’s national interests can today’s dispute over gas supplies establish our role in a transformed Europe.
Farben, which Hitler took over and used to make supplies for World War II.
Moreover, Israel has practically abandoned any hope of receiving agreed gas supplies from Egypt, and has not pressed its demand that Egypt block the passage of sophisticated weapons to Gaza.
The inability to access electricity has become a defining feature of urban poverty, with just 58% of city dwellers in Africa having reliable supplies in 2012.
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