Sentences with phrase «amount of wasted water»

The production of food through agriculture uses 80 % of the available water supply in the U.S., meaning that uneaten food leads to a significant amount of wasted water.

Moreover, all these processes produce large amounts of waste water that also need to be suitably treated.»

The process produces an enormous amount of waste water, referred to as «produced water,» that must be treated and transported.

These large quantities of wasted food translate into equally large amounts of wasted water (think «virtual water»); Charlotte de Fraiture, a researcher at IWMI, told ENS that almost half of the water consumed annually to grow food is lost or wasted.

Not exact matches

So, instead of spending excessive amounts of money on bottled water, install a filtration and dispensing system for use by customers and employees to save money, reduce waste, and help the environment.

«The waste waters are directly pumped into the ponds at the foot of the mountain, polluting the whole water system and damaging large amounts of forest, vegetation and paddy fields.»

It's a great bread book, but her method for achieving a starter takes fifteen days and gives highly specific flour and water amounts for feeding the thing, all of which is clearly unnecessarily difficult by about 12 days and pounds of wasted flour.

«In addition to being good for the environment, reducing our energy costs, water consumption and the amount of waste we discharge helps us offer a more competitive product,» Planter adds.

One beef burger requires the same amount of water than 60 showers, and with the detrimental drought South Africa is facing, we can't risk wasting one drop.

Employed on waste water streams, such technologies can achieve up to 99 % COD removal in some types of wastewater (COD, chemical oxygen demand, indicating the amount of organic compounds in water).

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

Throwing away one burger wastes the same amount of water as a 90 - minute shower!

• Completed mill - specific water risk assessments in eleven paper mills • 31.9 % reduction in relative amounts of COD in discharge water (compared to 2005) Waste • 13.3 % reduction in waste sent to landfill

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plWater, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plwater treatment plants.

During his talk, Simon will look at how Innocent ensures its supply chain meets not only environmental and social minimum standards, but how it is constantly striving to reduce waste and the amount of energy and water it uses.

Opponents say the industry is pushing a product that makes huge profits from a precious natural resource, has no dietary benefit compared with tap water and produces large amounts of waste.

We encourage the adoption of drip irrigation, for example, in tomato growing because it delivers the precise amount of water the crop needs, when it needs it, where it needs it, thus minimizing irrigation waste.

The amount of waste we go through with plastic water bottles is ridiculous, unsustainable and research is showing it's not great for your health either.

In combination with the different steam settings, you can tailor this iron to the amount of steam you need without wasting water or energy.

And of course, a reusable bottle of water, to try to cut down on the amount of waste...

amandamay said: «All of you flushing poop down the toilet from each baby diaper are wasting huge amounts of water (Average U.S. toilets use 2 - 3 gallons of water each flush).»

There is a huge amount of waste associated with disposable diapers both in terms of their production (the water, raw materials, energy, etc. that go in to making them) and where they end up.

Better for the environment (except for, you know, all that water...) There have been a few times when traveling that we've used disposable diapers exclusively, and the amount of waste generated was incredible.

EU guidance on the amount of water to be used in a toilet flush was the «most absurd waste of money» said Conservative MP Peter Bone.

I've been mindful of the amount of water I use when making a pot of coffee ever since learning that one - third of the tap water used for drinking in North America is actually used to brew our daily cups of joe — and that if each of us avoided wasting just one cupful of coffee a day, we could save enough water over the course of a year to provide two gallons to every one of the more than 1.1 billion people who don't have access to freshwater at all.

And the solution chosen by the developed world — the flush toilet — is running up against limits in the amount of water available to flush away human waste.

In addition to the coal waste, the team is working with marginal soils, such as those in desert climates, which normally require large amounts of water and chemical fertilisers in order for plants to grow.

For example, the large amount of water used to grow apples or irrigate rice or roast coffee is also wasted if the end - product is lost along the way.

The technology presents a huge opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint, return massive tracts of farmland to nature, drastically cut the amount of water and energy we waste growing animals and end the cruelty of factory farming.

During each wash cycle a certain amount of the silver coating is washed out of the textiles and ends up in the waste water.

The Arbuckle is a tempting place to dump waste because it can easily absorb huge amounts of water without leaking into drinking water, said Skinner.

While small amounts of sewage can dissipate quickly, the routine dumping of large amounts of human waste has caused long - term harm to many shoreline ecosystems, and rendered many coastal waters unfit for recreational activities.

It was the first to calculate both the amounts and type of food wasted and to model the behavior's impact on available resources like the amount of water and farmland wasted to grow the fodder to feed the livestock and cultivate the crops that consumers chuck.

Although Solar radiation and lightning (which has been detected by the ESA's Venus Express probe in 2007) should be producing large amounts of carbon monoxide (CO), the gas was found to be scarce, as if something was removing it (such as hydrogenogens, diverse bacteria and archaea that grow anaerobically utilizing CO as their sole carbon source and water as an electron acceptor to produce carbon dioxide and molecular hydrogen as waste products).

It's also made impressive commitments to reduce the amount of water and waste associated with its products.

It is grown in a sustainable way (using minimal amounts of water, protecting the soil from burnout, and turning animal wastes into natural fertilizers instead of environmental pollutants).

An e-cloth and just water greatly reduces the amount of consumer waste that is being produced while you clean.

One can have the leanest and healthiest body, but are purchasing large quantities of pre-packaged meals, drinking out of water bottles daily, wasting food, not recycling, and wasting vast amounts of electrical energy.

Also note that digestion is a 98 - 99 % efficient process - there are MINIMAL nutrients left in human waste matter, and what is left are primarily fibrous starches that we can not digest (like cellulose), a few undigested food particles, small amounts of fat, and water.

Each nephron is a tiny filter that removes certain waste products from the blood and controls the amount of water and electrolytes held within or eliminated from the body.

By eliminating these, our Bene - FISH - al DIY fish food not only provides better nutrition, it also reduces the amount of waste entering the tank, so the water quality is much better.

Just the amount of water I was wasting alone was amazing.

The process, and the impediments to its wider adoption, are described in detail in «Cutting waste in gas drilling — Pioneering propane technology used to free natural gas from rocks, avoiding the pollution of vast amounts of water.»

Before we construct massive new water delivery systems that encourage waste and consume large amounts of energy, perhaps we should consider adjusting our expectations about what can realistically be grown, when and where.

Environmentalists have long been concerned about the risks fracking poses to drinking water via the vast amount of waste that it produces, and the potential for methane and other chemical migration into aquifers.

• Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future generations

As your azollaculture technology matures and the price comes down, you might end up growing huge amounts of azolla for fodder, pumping part of it back into nighttime power, and using your CSP / bio-coal «waste» heat for distilling water.

One of the major issues facing the southwestern US has been the fracking industry wasting huge amounts of water, which has rapidly drained local aquifers in Texas and New Mexico over the past two years.

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)- The amount of dissolved oxygen consumed by micro-organisms (bacteria) in the bio-chemical oxidation of organic and inorganic matter in waste water.

Everything we eat has a water footprint, and as a recent Smithsonian Magazine article illustrates, when we waste food, it's like we're dumping huge amounts of water right into the garbage.