Sentences with phrase «gallon a day»

They do not do well in hot weather and drool gallons a day.

Scenic Hudson has worked for decades to stop the massive environmental damage to the Hudson River caused by the plant's withdrawal of billions of gallons a day of cooling water.

Designed by Carl Hodges, a young scientist at the University of Arizona, the 10,000 - square - foot pilot plant produces up to 5,000 gallons a day for trial use by residents of the small Mexican fishing town.

They also save on the cost of gas (and with a gallon costing almost $ 4 per gallon these days those savings could be substantial) and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.

Even with fuel efficiency improving in automobiles, Americans burned through a massive 406 million gallons a day in June, the most recent month of data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

In Hanoi, groundwater pumping doubled during the 2000s to an estimated 240 million gallons a day by 2010, and groundwater levels there have been dropping by about 1 meter per year.

Stick to drinking at least 3 litres of water a day, but try to aim for a full gallon a day.

Plans were made to supplement Hong Kong water with some 500,000 gallons a day brought in from Canton, about a hundred miles from Hong Kong.

The city, always facing the dilemma of maintaining adequate supply but also room for extra rain, has begun releasing water as fast as it can (600 million gallons a day through the Ashokan Release Channel).

Photo via Getty So Far, Anyways... Oil Continues Spewing at 200,000 Gallons a Day As you may already know, BP's primary plan to cap the geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico was to lower a 40 ft 100 ton containment dome onto the biggest leak site.

The plant would pump millions of gallons a day of Hudson River water from Haverstraw Bay, treat it, and then sell the drinking water to Rockland County residents.

The average American household uses up to 30 gallons a day for showers, according to the Water Research Foundation.

Its oil - drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, and efforts to cap the flow — estimated to be 200,000 to a few million gallons a day during the weeks right after the accident — suffered setbacks and delays.

In 2020, the planet's oil wells will produce nearly 12.7 billion gallons a day of water.

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

And then it got to the point where we couldn't believe what was going on — it got to 9,000 to 12,000 gallons a day.»

Our high rate of turnover - we package and sell hundreds of gallons every day - means that the syrup you receive won't have been sitting on the shelf for months.

At least 3 - 4 gallons a day.

I recommend a gallon a day if possible.

I aim for 2 gallons a day.

Under the 40 - year agreement, negotiated by officials from Tinley Park, Orland Park, New Lenox, Mokena and Oak Forest, the water supply from Lake Michigan shared by the towns will double from 55 million gallons a day to 110 million, and officials will build a second supply line to create a redundant looped system.

* Make sure you are staying well hydrated by drinking plenty of water (at least a gallon a day or more) and eating a sufficient amount of calories.

The Barekese dam too has seen an expansion, resulting in an additional 8 million gallons a day.

United Water was recognized for its ongoing effort to encourage both business and residents to conserve water, with Monaco telling the audience Rockland uses the lowest amount of water per user in the U.S, averaging 66 gallons a day per person — the national average of 100 gallons a day.

The Water Board issued written statements blaming those on heavy rains overtaxing the wastewater treatment plant's capacity of 60 million gallons a day.

They include water loss (a section of the Delaware Aqueduct to New York City slated for replacement is losing some 20 million gallons a day), contamination (not just chemical infiltration such as what's happened in Newburgh, but also lead in old pipes, particular of concern in schools), natural disasters, vandalism and even cyber-attacks.

The Rensselaer County Sewer District has been modernizing its treatment plant and pumping stations, including installation of UV disinfection technology that can treat more than 63 million gallons a day of wastewater.

Upgrades in Albany County have enabled treatment of more than 130 million gallons a day.

United Water's proposed desalination plant would treat water from the Hudson River and deliver up to 7.5 million gallons a day of potable water to Rockland's residents.

For several weeks, the plant released some 65 million gallons a day of partially treated sludge into Reynolds Channel, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Fifty years ago when IBM arrived with similar demands on the water system — actually, a minimum of 1 million gallons a day, seldom reached — that deal was trotted out behind marching bands.

Water is available in much of the area, with a further expansion planned for next spring, and the supply is more than adequate to service potential demands in excess of 1 million gallons a day.

The city's water system has a stated capacity of 8 million gallons a day, but is currently using only about 3.5 million.

No boil - water advisory is warranted at this time because the authority is maintaining good water pressure despite the loss of roughly 12 million gallons a day.

Thankfully, you don't have to measure your household water use personally - it's easier to go by the estimate of the United States Geological Survey: the average person in the US uses 80 - 100 gallons a day.

Conventional desalination plants that employ reverse - osmosis technology, used since the 1960s, are pricey: The new Carlsbad desalination plant in California, which outputs 50 million gallons a day, cost $ 1 billion to build.

The treatment system, which began operation in January, purifies wastewater that would otherwise be dumped into the Pacific, creating 70 million gallons a day of clean water.

«The measurements we do here are in beakers the size of a coffee cup, but when you're at a facility like a power plant that uses a million gallons a day, you want to know if hydrotalcite will be effective at that level,» Brady said.

Mussels filter water — a single one can clean up 20 - 30 gallons a day — as they eat, and excrete nutrients upon which other water organisms can feast.

If they used 160 gallons a day, it would exceed the total amount of water used for hydraulic fracturing.

«If each new temporary worker used 80 gallons a day, their total would be more than half the water used for hydraulic fracturing alone.

The screw top placed on top of the broken well now captures more than 600,000 gallons a day and, yet, remains largely invisible behind a veil of oil that continues to spill, adding to the as much as 50 million gallons already in the ocean depths.