Sentences with phrase «decrease water costs»

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Today the cost of desalinated water is about half of what it was 15 years ago; surely the cost can be decreased by half again — or more.

While the cost of desalinated water has steadily decreased, it still is much more expensive than water from traditional irrigation sources.

The organisation helps customers save money and reduce the strain on fresh water resources by decreasing consumption, CO2 emissions and operational costs through lower energy consumption, raw material and sewage treatment.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

As the article points out, we should continue to expect these large annual increases as the formula has not changed: increased capital costs at DEP and decreasing water usage across the City.

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The decrease in net income was due to higher raw materials, marketing and selling costs, along with the company's decision to transition its focus away from groundwater pumping equipment to surface water pumping equipment, which further increased costs.

Here are just some of the many benefits that these systems provide all at once: green infrastructure absorbs and sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02); filters air and water pollutants; stabilizes soil to prevent or reduce erosion; provides wildlife habitat; decreases solar heat gain; lowers the public cost of stormwater management infrastructure and provides flood control; and reduces energy usage through passive heating and cooling.

Generating energy using coal, oil, and gas also comes at high environmental costs by decreasing air quality, impacting our water resources, and negatively affecting our health.

So comparing it to nuclear or coal is misleading because wind serves a different purpose; every time it blows there's a substantial decrease in carbon emissions, volatile fossil fuel costs, water for cooling, manufacturing and pollution.

Altered agricultural conditions, including extreme heat, expanded water demands, and increased severe weather events, will affect food availability and cost, particularly in vulnerable regions in which child undernutrition is already a major threat.43 The decreased protein, iron, and zinc content of certain major crops has been demonstrated for plants grown under increased CO2 conditions, 44,45 carrying significant implications for child nutrition.

For many applications, solar water heaters, solar photovoltaic systems, small hydro and various energy efficiency options are mature, cost - effective technologies with decreasing costs and substantial environmental and economic benefits.

The social, economic and environmental costs become clearest when considering the continuously shrinking number of farms in the U.S., the continuing loss of top soil and the decreasing availability of irrigation water in many areas.

The loans will help increase water efficiency and improve wastewater treatment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by increasing the availability of drinking water, improving wastewater treatment infrastructure, reducing waste costs, and decreasing health risks to local communities.

Water metering (at a cost of $ 1.8 million) was far cheaper than building new infrastructure to meet «business as usual» demand, because it would decrease water consumption by 30 per Water metering (at a cost of $ 1.8 million) was far cheaper than building new infrastructure to meet «business as usual» demand, because it would decrease water consumption by 30 per water consumption by 30 per cent.