Sentences with phrase «big water footprint»

But it's no time for the state with a big water footprint to rest easy - because water now might not be there later.

Mike Hightower, a senior researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, cautions that reducing carbon emissions, while crucial, is just one part of the energy equation: Virtually every time you lower the carbon footprint in industrial energy production, he says, «you end up with a bigger water footprint.»

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«Chance find has big implications for water treatment's costs and carbon footprint.»

And for those concerned about carbon footprint, all that water is pumped electrically — and the biggest proportion of US electricity, nearly half of the total, is generated by the most carbon intensive method — burning coal.

Many of the biggest drains on our water supply come not from the kitchen tap but from inside the fridge of a typical home: ice cream, fresh meat and soft drinks, says Dutch scientist Arjen Hoekstra, who coined the term «water footprint» and founded the international Water Footprint Network in water supply come not from the kitchen tap but from inside the fridge of a typical home: ice cream, fresh meat and soft drinks, says Dutch scientist Arjen Hoekstra, who coined the term «water footprint» and founded the international Water Footprint Network in water footprint» and founded the international Water Footprint Networkfootprint» and founded the international Water Footprint Network in Water Footprint NetworkFootprint Network in 2008.

Cotton's biggest footprint comes during the growing stage, which uses an estimated 68 percent of total water used in the lifecycle of a pair of jeans.

Next on the list of things that boost a water footprint are habits like taking baths and hanging on to toilets with too - big tanks.