Sentences with phrase «billions of gallons of water»

Businesses and municipalities waste billions of gallons of water each year in poorly timed lawn irrigation.

It will turn over a large chunk of federal land to private energy companies, and it may involve withdrawing billions of gallons of water from sensitive desert habitat.

The project has saved the area billions of gallons of water.

Mr. Reiss and Mr. Goldstein decry the six Hudson River power plants with antiquated cooling systems that withdraw tens of billions of gallons of water directly from the river every day, thereby destroying billions of fish, fish eggs and larvae each year.

Satellite control of company and municipal irrigation systems, based on custom weather data, saves billions of gallons of water nationwide

Federal officials believe the subsidy program could successfully prod ranchers to put hundreds of billions of gallons of water back into the river and help relieve the shortages plaguing states downstream.

On a global scale, the biofuels frenzy is diverting millions of acres of farmland from food crops, converting millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other biofuels.

Their efforts have paid off in laws, regulations, and settlements that siphon off hundred of billions of gallons of water annually for environmental causes and wildlife refuges.

How can we make California's water system even 1 % more efficient to save billions of gallons of water?

It requires millions of pounds of insecticides, billions of pounds of fertilizer, vast amounts of petroleum - based energy, and billions of gallons of water — to produce a fuel that gets one - third less mileage per gallon than gasoline and achieves no overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

In the case of ethanol, it involves growing corn that requires millions of acres of land, billions of gallons of water, and vast quantities of pesticides, fertilizers, tractor fuel, and natural gas... to produce energy that drives up food prices, damages small engines, and gets one - third fewer miles per gallon than gasoline.

They are completely unsustainable, they soak up billions of gallons of water, and the planet can't afford them.»