Sentences with phrase «water use around the world»

Water Use Around the World This Earth Day, compare your water use with water use in other places around the world.

Not exact matches

They are craft brewed in small batches using the simplest ingredients: Scottish water, malts from Crisp and Fawcetts, the best hops that Bellfield can source from around the world and carefully chosen yeasts.

Icelandic Glacial uses 100 % natural green energy to fuel its production delivering a premium bottled water to discerning consumers around the world while maintaining a «net zero» carbon footprint.

The way we currently produce food around the world contributes up to 20 - 30 % of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for 70 % of all human water use.

Cities around the world have been using UV light to make water safe to drink for over 100 years, since this kind of light destroys germs» ability to reproduce and make you sick.

Trade winds and currents have landed this massive trash heap from around the world into what used to be clean waters.

BPA, a ubiquitous and dangerous chemical used in the manufacturing of many plastics, is found in water sources around the world.

Get the award - winning LifeStraw water filter, used by millions around the world!

The strong tides around these islands have led the European Union - funded European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to use Orkneys» waters as the world's largest testbed for a renewable energy source that has been stalled for years: tidal power.

To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the world, experts have assessed the value of ecosystem services provided by land resources such as food, poverty reduction, clean water, climate and disease regulation and nutrients cycling.

Memtec's microfiltration system is cleaning up sewage around the world and has even been used by the Australian Army to shower 600 troops in a single eight - hour shift using one continuously recycled tank of water.

And although a handful of other concentrating solar plants around the world use solar rays to heat water directly into steam, it is much more volatile than molten salt and can not be easily stored, Ho explains.

In 2013, more than 200 undergraduate teams from around the world competed in iGEM, creating novel biological systems (such as an E. coli - based sensor to detect arsenic in drinking water) using BioBrick parts made and freely shared by previous iGEM students, and stored and distributed from the freezers at iGEM headquarters in Cambridge, Mass..

The findings have implications for watersheds around the world, because irrigation accounts for 90 percent of human water use globally, and local and regional aquifers are drying up.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets and team member Emmanuël Jehin is excited about the future possibilities: «With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.»

He says he's noticing more agencies around the country and the world using the tracking strategy in their water quality programs.

Finally, we are in the midst of developing real - time, reagentless phosphorus sensors using advanced materials that could end up being major game changers for people who need to monitor phosphorus in water bodies around the world.»

They limited data sources to locations around the world in which paleoceanographic data also exist, using seven variables: salinity; potential temperature; oxygen isotope ratios in water; carbon isotope ratios in dissolved inorganic carbon; and concentrations of phosphate, nitrate, and dissolved oxygen.

Colloidal silver is used by millions of people around the world to kill water - born pathogens.

Rose water has been used throughout history by women around the world.

A colouring sheet for students to use as part of an ocean or seaside topic, or as inspiration for writing a story about creatures that live in the water and world around us.

A collection of photos from my travels to different oceans and seas around the world, which I have used with my students on topics such as habitats and ecosystems, but also on water, pollution, and forces.

Students discuss how they use water, predict the impacts of a reduced groundwater supply, investigate articles and video reporting the impacts of vanishing groundwater around the world and ultimately use summary to create advocacy campaigns in support of groundwater regulations.

Unlike other eReaders around the world offering water protection, the HZO Protected Tolino Vision 3HD does not use mechanical seals or plugs in charging ports to keep water out.

Beginning with the basics, Hydropower, by Diane Bailey, explains how we use water to create energy around the world.

Leisure facilities The hotel's Dreamworks Spa will offer a wide range of treatments using techniques from around the world in elegant treatment rooms, with views of the Dubai Water Canal.

Based in the United States, the Waterkeeper Alliance aspires to protect every major watershed around the world, to advocate for every person's right to clean water, as well as the wise and equitable use of water resources globally.

These vials are used as vessels for holy water, which Hiller collects by going on pilgrimages to holy springs and sites around the world.

Amazon, Arctic, Darfur and Napa Valley Stephan Faris, a correspondent for Time, Fortune, and Salon, who wrote Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley, addressed land use and how global warming is responsible for drought, water issues, malaria spreading, health, and immigration pressures around the world.

Forest Trends (co-convener; SIWI lead convener) will be presenting cases from the southwestern US and highlight successful examples from around the world where wastewater is recirculated and cost - efficiently used to irrigate forests, closing the water cycle, recharging groundwater, and supporting vibrant forests.

This activity report presents some examples of the IFAD - GEF partnership from around the world by using brief case studies to highlight certain aspects of various projects, which includes over 43 national and regional projects, covering areas of biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation and sustainable forest management.

This system, introduced in the early 1900s and used around the world, uses excess power to pump water uphill, and then generates power when it is released back down.

if we deregulate industry (if you deregulate one then you will have to deregulate them all) then the waste collection business up the road will dispose of their sludge down the gutters into the storm water drains, the coffee business in the next row will not replace their odour filters and the whole area will reak of burnt coffee all day, the tyre business around the corner will dump their tyres in the nearby bushland, some of the hardup businesses in the area will hookup to the power lines with with uncontrolled connections and we will start to get brown outs at various times in the day, The lead and tin foundry a block away won't bother controlling the lead oxide spewing out of their chimney stack, nearby housing developments will all use open fires in winter to save on energy costs and start hacking trees out of the world heritage national park here.

The effects on the world around us are also negative — excessive use of water, sewage lagoons that pollute ground water and dead zones in the ocean from animal waste.

The report describes refrigeration and air - conditioning technologies around the world that use hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, air, water, ammonia, and «not - in - kind» technologies (e.g., solar) instead of HFCs.

By supporting healthy watersheds and sponsoring clean - water projects around the world, as well as continuing to implement technological solutions at its factories and bottling plants, the company says it will theoretically be able to save or replenish the amount of water it uses.

It's smaller that the cotton we're used to seeing in the U.S., but has attracted the attention of cotton growers around the world for potential hybridization with more water - depending versions of the crop.

To meet this ambitious goal and to increase the quality of rice for millions of families for decades to come, Mars has invested in research and farmer education and is partnering with growers, NGOs and universities to transform the production of rice farms around the world to enhance water use, reduce GHG emissions, improve yields and increase incomes.