Sentences with phrase «drinking snow water»

We have been reading guidebooks to the area, and in one we have come across this bleak paragraph: «In the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow water.

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This massive undertaking will help scientists better understand how much liquid water is contained within snow and how viable snow is as a resource of liquid water on our planet for drinking, agriculture, and hydropower.
The snow and rain that comes in the cold season runs off into reservoirs, where it is stored for drinking water, agriculture, hydropower and other uses.
The snow readings are important during this time of the year, as several locations depend on the meltwater from that snowpack for drinking water and irrigation through the drier and hotter summer months.
That snow not only provides our drinking water, it powers the hydroelectric dams that keep our lights on.
Read about ice, steam, snow, drinking water, oceans, water pollution, seawater, rivers the water cycle and much more with our huge range of interesting facts about water.
Most at risk are pets that spend a lot of time in the water or in area that gets rain or snow runoff, as well as dogs that drink from puddles or ponds.
Find out why Lake Mead appears to have a bathtub ring around its shoreline and how less snow in the mountains means less drinking water for California.
Our Department of Water Resources has already documented a significant shrinking in the annual snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which is the source of two thirds of our developed drinking and agricultural water in the state, and a trend which they said that by 2050, we'd lose about two thirds of our snow Water Resources has already documented a significant shrinking in the annual snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which is the source of two thirds of our developed drinking and agricultural water in the state, and a trend which they said that by 2050, we'd lose about two thirds of our snow water in the state, and a trend which they said that by 2050, we'd lose about two thirds of our snow pack.
That snow not only provides our drinking water, it powers the hydroelectric dams that keep our lights on.
Changes in the snow pack change availability of water for drinking, transportation, and agriculture (irrigation).
For one thing, saving large open spaces protects the local aquifer, the underground layer of rock that stores rainwater and melting snow, and our prime source of drinking water.
It's really about knowing, say if I have a headache at a high altitude because of a lack of pressure in the air, that with time it's going to go away and I just can focus on my breathing and hydrating, little inconveniences; or being very cold, or getting to the tent exhausted and having to set up your tent, and make snow into water, and then heat the water up to drink, and then make some soup or something to eat, and things like that.
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