Sentences with phrase «consuming tons of water»

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La Leche League figures indicate that for every 3 million bottle - fed babies, trash heaps collect 70,000 tons of discarded metal formula containers, and that in developing countries, boiling water to heat one infant's formula for a year consumes 160 pounds of wood.

«The nine plants approved by the government — most of which are located in desert or semi-desert regions in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia — will consume more than 200 million tons of water annually and could worsen water shortages in areas that already are under significant water stress.»

With this increase in the persistence of open water and thus the availability of prey, the whales we recorded in Wilhelmina Bay could potentially consume an additional 3,225 — 7,224 tons of krill (0.16 — 0.36 % of the total biomass) during this period (Table 1).

Two onboard desalination plants produce 200 tons of fresh water per day, more than is consumed even when the standard crew is joined by 100 or more paying passengers.

The scientists estimated that the swarm consumed up to 74 percent of microscopic carbon - containing plants from the surface water per day, and their sinking fecal pellets transported up to 4,000 tons of carbon a day to deep water.