Sentences with phrase «gallons of water out»

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 17, 2016 CONTACT: Michael O'Heaney 510.684.6417 [email protected] Ileene Anderson Center for Biological Diversity [phone] [email protected] Brett Abrams, Courage Campaign [phone] [email protected] The Story of Stuff Project, Courage Campaign Institute, and Center for Biological Diversity appealed a US District Court decision that allows Nestlé to continue drawing an estimated 36 million gallons of water out of California's San...

October 13, 2015 This past spring, media outlets lit up with stories about Nestlé pumping of millions of gallons of water out of southern California's San Bernardino National Forest for bottling.

The Story of Stuff Project, Courage Campaign Institute, and Center for Biological Diversity appealed a US District Court decision that allows Nestlé to continue drawing an estimated 36 million gallons of water out of California's San Bernardino National Forest every year.

«Over the course of the year, we're keeping millions of gallons of water out of the sewer system,» Gwen Schantz, one of the founders and chief operating officer of the Brooklyn Grange, told TreeHugger.

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American businesses flush more than a billion gallons of fresh water down the toilet every working day and throw out 15 million plastic toner cartridges every year.

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

Take the fruit out of the freezer, place in a three gallon crock while you are waiting for the sugar water to boil.

Where else can you pick out a scented candle that will cost you 75 cents after rebate while listening to a video across the aisle telling you that you will save thousands of gallons of water over the lifetime of the toilet.

It's easier and takes less water to produce a gallon of almondmilk than to feed / nurture the cow and associated pasture and barn to create the same amount of dairy milk.So it turns out switching to Silk almondmilk is good for your body AND the Earth!

I get two half - gallon batches of water kefir out of two large frozen peach slices (about half a peach).

It runs for 11 hours on one tank of water and puts out 2.1 gallons of cool mist to relieve stuffy noses, cough and dry respiratory passages.

In 2015, the former CEO of Nestle Tim Brown admitted that Nestle wastes 30 % of the 700 million gallons of water per year Nestle takes out of California groundwater — then declared attempts by Nestle to reduce that water waste by 12 %.

And by the time everyone was out of the tub, and there were a few gallons of water to wipe off the floor, I was ready for lights to be out.

«It felt like a 5 - gallon bucket of water had spilled out.

Cut some fish shapes out of clean kitchen sponges and slip them into a gallon - sized resealable plastic bag filled with about a cup of water.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

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.

The authority stated that for an average residential water user — using 17,000 gallons of water a year — this will work out to an additional 85 cents on their bill per quarter.

Officials, it turned out, had estimated the Colorado's average flow after a period of unusually wet conditions, calculating that 18 million acre - feet flowed through the river each year, and dividing up some 15 million acre - feet, or 4.8 trillion gallons of water, between the states.

Meagan S. Mauter and colleagues point out that a major criticism of extracting shale gas through hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is that it requires tremendous amounts of water — 2.5 to 5 million gallons — to develop a single well.

Namibian desert - dwelling elephants have figured out how to prevent overheating in triple - digit temperatures by covering their bodies with sand wetted by their urine or regurgitated water from a specialized pouch beneath their tongue that holds many gallons of water.

On Sunday, firefighters with the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center reported that the fire appeared to be out after they poured thousands of gallons of water and foam down the shaft, according to a release on the Fermilab Web site.

For humans, that would amount to about 1.5 gallons of water, Oka points out.

To sample 100 gallons of water, someone scoops out that much water and tests it for bioindicator microbes.

«I tend to avoid working out strenuously because it usually makes me feel sick, so instead I opt for starting my day with a cup of green tea for caffeine and at least a gallon of water throughout the day.

Add the water and the soil to a gallon - size bucket or jar and keep in a place out of direct heat or cold (I keep in my garage).

When you buy secondhand, you may not know the production story or 100 % love the materials used, but you do know that you are saving gallons of water, a significant amount of energy, and keeping a perfectly good piece of fashion out of the landfill.

Pour out 2 ounces from each gallon of distilled or purified water and add 1 ounce of Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV).

I would just love to find out how to eliminate dry mouth (despite drinking a gallon of water a day plus electrolytes).

They carry gallon jugs of water around everywhere they go, stay in the gym for 2 + hours just to «hang out,» and I'm pretty sure one of them wore a sleeveless hoodie to a funeral.

Pasture - raised beef requires only the water that the animal drinks, which works out to about 30 gallons of water per pound of beef, about the amount used in one shower.

Of course, drinking gallons of water goes without saying and eating well etc, but sometimes internal may not equal external and here's how I am able to «balance» it ouOf course, drinking gallons of water goes without saying and eating well etc, but sometimes internal may not equal external and here's how I am able to «balance» it ouof water goes without saying and eating well etc, but sometimes internal may not equal external and here's how I am able to «balance» it out.

It looked as if I'd had gallons of water and been hanging out in the sauna all day.

Over the course of 2,306 miles, I burned a total of 168 gallons, averaged out to an eye - watering 13.7 mpg.

I had a friend do that with the coat hanger and ended up with about 1 1/2 gallons of water draining out of the dash!

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When the blood had finally stopped draining, Ralph filled a plastic washbasin with warm soapy water from a jug and scrubbed his hands carefully, leisurely, precisely, pausing even to clean the soap from beneath his fingernails with a smaller pocketknife — and when he was done, Bruce poured a gallon jug of clean water over Ralph's hands and wrists to rinse the soap away, and then Ralph dried his hands and arms with a clean towel and emptied out the old bloody wash water, then filled it anew, and it was time for Bruce to do the same.

Natural Nurseries On the fish side, it is a real challenge to find species that stay small enough to live out their lives in a few gallons of water.

This is best accomplished by throwing out all contaminated items and cleaning the contaminated environment with a solution of one cup of chlorine bleach in a gallon of water (250 mL in 4 liters of water).

She fills three gallon - size milk jugs with water, pulls on a pair of polka - dotted muck boots, and lets her elderly dog out for a pee break while she loads her car.

If You Chicken Out: Suspended over the boardwalk area, the Roller Soaker is a curious Mean Girls kind of «interactive» coaster; each passenger is given four gallons of water to dump on spectators below as they pass overhead.

Not too long ago, on a typical summer day at the downtown market, we would throw out about 500 gallons worth of garbage bags destined for the landfill, loaded with food scraps, plastic water bottles, to - go coffee cups, paper plates, soda cans, packaging and other discarded items.

So if you're out on the ocean ans your boat is taking on 100 gallons of water per hour, and you can only bucket / pump out 95 gallons per hour then you have a problem.

While I am pretty good about keeping them short and am learning to take navy showers, it never hit home just how much water I was using until I had to put water in a 5 gallon bucket and figure out how to get all of the soap out of long hair without using all the water up.

Their queen - sized bed lifts up with the use of hydraulic hardware, and underneath there's storage space made out for their 100 - gallon water tank and camping gear.

A simple cotton shirt takes about 700 gallons of water to make — most of it to grow the cotton out in the field.

Here's a mind blower for all the «Cadillac Desert» fans out there is waterworld: Statistics indicate the City of San Francisco uses only a miserly 92 gallons of water per person per day.

Trapping billions of gallons a day out of the evaporation cycle or putting films on the surface also slows the evaporation by blocking water being on the surface.

Millions of gallons of pressurized water, sand, and chemicals are then used to create fissures in the rock and release oil, which is pumped out.

There is over a trillion gallons a day of water redirected out of our eco-system being trapped in pipes and sewers, pumped into oil wells for pressure, trapped into tailing ponds with heavy surface scum, made into canned food and water products, made into cleaning supplies and beauty products.