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.
Not exact matches
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.