Sentences with phrase «billions of gallons of water from»

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Through diverting 54, 000,000 pounds of cloth, USAgain along with its consumers kept 378, 000,000 lbs of carbon dioxide away from getting into the atmosphere, preserved above 75.6 billion gallons of water, combined with 308,571 cubic lawns of dump room.

Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reactors.

Matuska estimates that on the whole, California water users in the area draw more than 2 billion gallons of groundwater from the Colorado River each year, which, through his strict accounting, is then properly factored into the state's larger water math.

Denver and other eastern Colorado cities already take 154 billion gallons of water across the Continental Divide from western Colorado each year.

Evaporation from overwatered lawns cost the city of Los Angeles 70 billion gallons of wasted water a year.

Energy companies used nearly 250 billion gallons of water to extract unconventional shale gas and oil from hydraulically fractured wells in the United States between 2005 and 2014, a new Duke University study finds.

That might sound expensive, but the average American family spends $ 300 on toilet paper every year, their portion of the 3 million tons of the stuff that is made every year from 54 million trees using 473 billion gallons of water and 17.3 terawatts of electricity.

Biodegradable corn plastic cups and seed paper sleeves were available and the campaign's signage was read by all waiting in line, stating: Switching from a disposable to a reusable mug can save 9 million trees a year, 5.7 billion gallons of water and eliminate 363 million pounds of solid waste from landfill.

In fact, the company estimates they helped conserve 6.7 billion gallons of water last year alone.HydroPoint Data System's WeatherTRAK allows users to control sprinkler systems across multiple properties from a single web interface.

«Our restoration efforts have been slowed by the historic flooding, which deposited 200 billion gallons of water in just a few days across our service territory, which covers some 900 square miles,» according to a storm update from JEA published on the same day as Doyle's letter to the editor.

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.

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.

The Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester County withdraws more than two billion gallons of water from the Hudson River each day to keep its reactors cool — then dumps the heated water back into the river.

Australia is leading the way in everything from strategies to combat desertification to using renewable energy for desalination plants, and now it is putting that knowledge to work on six new infrastructure projects that can save 1.3 billion gallons of water.

Over 1.2 billion gallons of water are drawn daily from reservoirs that are over 100 miles from the city.

An estimated 250 billion gallons of water were used for fracking wells from 2005 - 2013 - 44 percent of which came from already drought - stricken Texas reservoirs.