Sentences with phrase «cuts water consumption»

It adds that solar power is both helping to diversify the Texan power supply and cut water consumption.

«We cut our water consumption in half, which saved on running costs,» he said.

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The city government has for the past several months urged its citizens to drastically cut their consumption by taking short showers, and reusing the water in their toilets and gardens, among other measures.

Because of the unrelenting pressure to process more calls, employees were cutting down on water consumption (and hence, bathroom breaks), and stress and lack of time were leading to unhealthy food choices.

Perhaps surprising is that these firms are targeting meat eaters, not vegans or vegetarians, and they are doing so by focusing on the need for the entire population to cut down on animal consumption to conserve valuable water and land resources.

Besides, the Smartlkleen NCC2 is a cleaner that will minimize your swimming pool chemical consumption and also increase water conservation by cutting down the need to backwash your pool filter.

Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered water companies to cut consumption by 15 percent.

Recently the United Nations warned that the world could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water by 2030 unless countries dramatically cut consumption.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Showing that it is possible to cut greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and energy usage will support the implementation of new standards and regulations on fluorinated gases.

The project should bring numerous environmental benefits, including reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 880 to 1111 tonnes per year, cutting chemical fertiliser use and water consumption by 20 % and increasing carbon sequestration in soil by the same amount.

To get rid of water weight, you'll need to drastically cut down your sodium consumption — The Institute of Medicine recommends around 1,500 milligrams of sodium per day for adults, with 2,300 milligrams being the upper limit, and most of us consume a lot more than that.

There is a lot of current research on this matter, and protocols that can help with this hormonal balance include: cutting down on non-organic food and coffee, increasing consumption of cruciferous vegies, drinking lemon water, reducing use of plastics and dry brushing.

If 400 mg of magnesium citrate isn't helping, you may want to cut back on your dairy product consumption to rebalance your calcium intake to your magnesium intake, drink lots more water or cut back on the amount of nuts you are eating.

With the drought in California, many people believe that we should dramatically cut our consumption of beef as it takes 1,847 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef.

Try cutting back the amt of KT he is drinking and increase water consumption to see if the rash subsides.

Not cutting back on your sparkling water consumption may even lead to chronic bloating.

The solution isn't easy but, according to Pearce, it is possible - we need to change how we think of water - instead of thinking of water as an endlessly renewal source that falls from the sky we need to think of it as a limited and precious resource that needs to be conserved - and he's not talking about putting a brick in the toilet or cutting down ones time in the shower, the first step is for us to understand our real water consumption and where that water comes from.

Newly sourced products can cut a participating hotel's water and energy consumptions for laundry by more than 20 percent.

And with the extra insulation my house has and new water heater, I've already cut my resource consumption quite a bit.

One way to prevent water shortages is to reduce use, and the city is providing some serious monetary incentives for businesses willing to cut back on water consumption.

In 2011, the College set five five - year sustainability targets: to cut paper consumption by half, achieve a 65 percent diversion rate for waste (achieved in 2012), achieve a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a five percent reduction in water use.

Solar water heaters saved, in 2005, the consumption of almost 70 million barrels of oil and cut carbon emissions by 29,000,000 tons — not bad for a technology, so simple it can be built in a tool shop, that will celebrate its centennial next year, born in America yet now primarily used elsewhere.

The Senate provision Toyota is fighting against would cut U.S. oil consumption by 1.2 million barrels a day, 140 percent more than the watered - down legislation it supports.

Inspired by ultra-efficient, water - saving space technologies, this patented shower system recycles and purifies shower water, dramatically cutting down on water and energy consumption.

Cutting edge data centers of the future will require less of a physical human presence, and are likely to: â $ cents Rely on a VIL to optimize equipment management and provide for virtual remote control capable of instant changes, switches and adds â $ cents Achieve LEED certification for the physical building â $ cents Rely on more efficient water cooling that potentially takes advantage of an on - site tower to chill water for cooling the system (thus reducing energy consumption by using nature's natural cooling power to chill water) â $ cents Use fluid dynamics models to precisely design the interior of the building to maximize the efficiency of the HV / AC system for air - cooled computing systems â $ cents Tap into a mixed energy grid that relies on green energy sources such as solar, wind or hydroelectric (depending on geographic feasibility), along with a reliable city grid thus avoiding the need for the standard back - up Uninterruptible Power Supply (which will reduce equipment costs, minimize floor space used, and increase energy efficiency because systems that employ a UPS convert AC to DC and back, incurring substantial energy losses).

Water consumption can be cut dramatically by using «dry - cooling,» but this change increases the cost per kilowatt - hour (kWh) of power generated from concentrating solar power (CSP).

Clothes washers that have earned the ENERGY STAR use next generation technology to cut energy consumption by 25 % and water consumption by 33 % compared to conventional washers.

Moore's Law Cuts Cost of Computing, and Therefore Cost of Everything Else Our use of IT is skyrocketing, but Bill Gross of Idealab showed that while everything else is going up in resource consumption - from water to oil to minerals - computing is going down.

Tsogo Sun, the largest hotel group in the Cape, has cut consumption of water by 40 %.

(And with the cost of water going up by about nine per cent per year in Toronto, cutting down on consumption is becoming an increasing priority.)