Sentences with phrase «water costs around»

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Shell's Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said the oil sector had yet to emerge from troubled waters, but huge cost savings meant oil majors were getting closer to balancing their operations at today's oil prices of around $ 50 a barrel.

The ELA cost $ 2 million a year to maintain, but its research saved governments around the world billions of dollars by preventing water contamination, Schindler said.

«For example, one bottle of Capella brand flavors 75 16.9 oz bottles of water and cost around $ 5.95 per bottle; in comparison, MiO is good for around 24 servings,» said Goel Lal.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Residents who can not afford an entire landscaping area can earmark a few dollars for community sponsored improvements around the water slide - work there will cost about $ 4,000.

Cold water sterilisation is the cheapest: a unit will cost around # 15 but you can use any plastic tub with a lid and just buy the sterilising tablets.

Multiply this cost a dozen times to have a couple of water cannons available for a number of major incidents all around the country and the cost runs into tens of millions.

We have to move those products to Kumasi depot, Buipe, Bolgatanga, Maame Water, Akosombo — that margin is supposed to take care the freight cost or transportation of the fuel from these depots to the inland depots so that consumers around those depots do not pay different prices by reason of the movement in the primary distribution.

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

The scale of the investment for universal and safely - managed drinking water and sanitation is vast, with estimates around $ 114B USD per year, for capital costs alone.

Diffusers (they cost around $ 30 to $ 40 each) work fine for simply chillaxing — you fill a small basin with water and plop in a few drops of your chosen essential oil, and a fan emits a scented mist.

Replacing the seals plus the timing belt and tensioner costs around # 450, and most owners get the water pump replaced at the same time — an additional # 160.

To get around this you can always use a floor adhesive, but this will require additional labour and materials (which means more cost), or you can opt to install vinyl by the sheet (less seams means less chance for water penetration).

Second, the property would need to be hooked into the sewer and water, at a cost of around $ 15 - $ 18K.

While a basic water turtle like a red - eared slider may cost as little as $ 10, tortoises typically start at around a $ 100.

As for water, each lot owner will need to register his or her own water meter with the local water company, which costs around $ 300.

A lesson there should cost you around $ 25 USD, just rock up and look for the guys with the foam boards and try your luck in one of the best water sports out there!

Boat trips to either of these destinations cost around US$ 45 per adult, which usually includes snorkel mask and fin rental and a guide who will go into the water with you and point out the sights.

The cheaper alternative to flying is a water taxi which costs around US$ 35 per person per round trip.

You won't see water troughs along the main path on the islands, and the cost of the short rides are getting rather extortionate (US$ 7 - 10 to your resort or US$ 12 to go around the island).

If you want to learn to scuba dive, a PADI Open Water course on Koh Tao will cost around 10,000 Baht.

Depending on water levels the trip can take around two hours passing caves and waterfalls and costs around 125,000 rupiah which includes life jackets.

Cost depend on the type of course but for eLearning for the PADI Open Water course you pay around 200 AUD or 160 euros.

During the two - week challenge, more than 3,200 employees around the globe saved more than 109,300 gallons of water, equivalent to five swimming pools; eliminated more than 10,769 disposable cups from landfills; avoided nearly 400 pounds of food waste from entering the landfills; and replaced 1,245 bulbs, saving over $ 17,000 in energy costs.

Ask any Briton about the eye watering cost of fuel for their cars (around US$ 10.40 for a gallon of petrol (gas) and the expense of heating their homes.

Gleick testified that Pacific Institute work on urban and agricultural water efficiency show that existing, cost - effective technologies and policies can reduce state demand for water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter water efficiency show that existing, cost - effective technologies and policies can reduce state demand for water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter water in the shorter term.

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.

The most recent drought from 2006 to 2007 reduced Australia's economic growth by about 0.75 percent.2 It curtailed agriculture, killing sheep and drastically cutting grain yields.2 Restrictions on water use in urban areas cost around $ 815 million each year, and affected more than 80 percent of Australian households.2

New York City has great quality tap water because the city invested in water protection by purchasing land around its Catskills reservoirs to ensure that polluted runoff from roads and lawns doesn't enter the water supply.The city's $ 600 million investment in Catskills land protection and restoration did the job of $ 6 billion in capital costs to construct a water filtration plant as well as $ 200 - 300 million in annual operation and maintenance costs.

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.

, written 2007/09/14 I noted that the cost of water in Australia varied from $ 0.0013 / kL ($ 1.30 / ML) in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area to around $ 1 / kL for a domestic consumer in South Australia (the cost to domestic consumers in SA had increased to around $ 3 / kL by 2017).

And then we circle around to the carbon footprint again; the cost of transporting and storing the Tropicana NFC juice is probably five times as high as frozen concentrate, now almost entirely Brazilian, and a lot higher than recon, or reconstituted concentrate, the one for the person too lazy to add water.

Getting basic sanitation and safe drinking water to the three billion people around the world who do not have it now would cost nearly $ 4 billion a year.

Seawater desalination plants cost around $ 1 for each litre per day capacity, and about $ 1 for each kilolitre of desalinated water they produce.

The bottled water equivalent would cost around $ 1,400.

When we were shopping around for a solution for our own smartphone - water concerns we opted to go with a dry bag because it was the right balance between cost and use (given that we don't routinely have our phone in an environment where it will be exposed to significant amounts of water it was a reasonable tradeoff to shove it in the dry bag when we're at the beach).

This handset will offer IP67 certification for water and dust resistance, while the phone is expected to cost around $ 500 (3,299 Yuan).

With increasing demand, available space is becoming scarce around both water ports and airports, and industrial rental costs for tenants are skyrocketing.

Crystal Lagoons, a multinational technology and innovations company, has started a real estate revolution around the world, enabling the creation and maintenance of unlimited sized bodies of crystal clear water at very low construction and maintenance costs, which, when included in property developments, have contributed to exponential growth in sales prices, sales velocity as well as increase in project density.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.

A stem of cymbidiums will last for about a week under water and costs around $ 30.