Sentences with phrase «gallons of water when»

Did you know that you can save 115 gallons of water when you buy one shirt made with organic cotton instead of a mass - produced t - shirt you would normally buy?

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Holding perhaps 180 gallons, when only a drop of water on the wrist was needed for purification, they would have sufficed for most of Israel.

And when it comes to water use, the comparison couldn't be more stark: Pulses use only five gallons of water to produce each gram of protein, while beef requires 29.6 gallons of water for each gram.

When my three year old fed the fish every container of fish food all at once and the twenty nine gallon aquarium needed to have all of its water cleaned and replaced at bedtime.

It requires around 400 gallons of water to create one cotton t - shirt and, when 10.5 million tonnes of clothing are sent to landfill each year in the US, doing your bit to ensure the clothing you buy lasts as long as possible is something small but significant you can do for the environment.

When they would visit during my pregnancy, she would buy gallons of nursery water (Im still not sure exactly what that is), perfumed baby wipes, disposable diapers and strongly perfumed ointments and powders.

Older kids generally take me up on my suggestion, but the younger kids usually look across the way to where I'm pointing, then return to methodically emptying those 5 gallon buckets onto the ground, or, when they get tired of that, into any other empty container they find to fill — a wagon, the inside of a tire, another watering can — but rarely the garden.

It can run up to 24hours, can output around 2.3 gallons of water daily and it will automatically turn off when the tank is empty.

You will have to drink gallons of water before you go — the hospital will send you a letter telling you the exact amount to drink, and when.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

«When you go to Kpong in Tema, President Mahama has put in place equipment that is pumping 40 million gallons of water a day [uncharacteristic] of in the history of the nation,» he told teeming supporters of the NDC at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium during the party's National Campaign Launch Sunday.

When the DEC's last impact statement was released in 1992, a typical well required only about 80,000 gallons of water.

The state also wants Indian Point to install cooling towers that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to mitigate harm to wildlife when the plant sucks in billions of gallons of Hudson River water to cool its turbines.

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.

«They do have sanitary sewers that are not combined, but when you look at the flow on a regular day, the number of gallons that go through a pump station and then compare it to what happens after a rain storm, they have eight times the water going through,» Mahoney said.

For the most part, city officials went underground when news broke that the water department was negotiating a deal to sell a maximum of 1.75 million gallons of water a day to a national bottling company to be headquartered at a new plant in Lake Katrine.

He declines to reveal much, but when asked if his process could produce 1,000 gallons of water for 10 to 12 kilowatt - hours of energy — the rate to beat for any new technology — he nods and allows a rare silence to linger.

I've been mindful of the amount of water I use when making a pot of coffee ever since learning that one - third of the tap water used for drinking in North America is actually used to brew our daily cups of joe — and that if each of us avoided wasting just one cupful of coffee a day, we could save enough water over the course of a year to provide two gallons to every one of the more than 1.1 billion people who don't have access to freshwater at all.

In 1992, after it was noted that a flush toilet uses 40 percent of a household's water, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act (EPAct), requiring all new toilets within two years to use only 1.5 gallons (5.5 liters) for each flush, when the average was an astonishing eight gallons (30 liters).

Based on the city's specifications (pdf), the facility will use no more than 6.3 megawatts of power when the water is at the maximum flow of 2.4 billion gallons per day.

The xenon's job is to light up, with a jolt of electrical charge and a faint flash of light caught by surrounding sensors, when a dark - matter particle collides with one of its atoms — and the gallons of water and mile of rock's job is to stop anything else from getting in and disturbing it.

One of the state's largest spills to date occurred in 2014, when an underground pipeline leak caused approximately 1 million gallons of brine to flow down a ravine and into Bear Den Bay, about a quarter mile upstream from a drinking water intake on Lake Sakakawea.

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.

Consuming one gallon of water in one day means drinking it even when you're not thirsty.

A few weeks ago when we took a break from working outside to reapply homemade bug spray and drink a gallon of water, I noticed that the bug spray left a cooling sensation on the skin and helped it seem not so hot.

Many juicing & blending experts fail to emphasize that it is SO important to drink tons of water (my med team suggests 1 - 2 gallons / day) IN ADDITION when eating / juicing / blending lots of greens, to help flush these crystals from your system and prevent the chance of kidney stones to form.

So I am curious if this workout will get rid of the excess fat on my body when I'm already following a good diet with 5 - 6 small healthy meals a day and drinking a gallon of water.

It takes around 2900 gallons of water to make one pair of traditional cotton jeans — that's equivalent to 10,977 one litre water bottles — and when denim is coloured and rinsed, rivers are poisoned with chemical indigo dyes.

It sucks up around 1,500 gallons of water for just one pair of jeans, and every year, there are over 2 billion pairs of jeans produced globally — and when denim is rinsed, it leaves several tons of nasty, toxic blue dye that goes right back into our water ways.

Public places have posters on display that say «Report Water Wasters,» and when our lead character Ruth (Mbatha - Raw) stops at a roadside motel, it costs almost as much to rent her room as it does to buy a half - gallon of water from the front Water Wasters,» and when our lead character Ruth (Mbatha - Raw) stops at a roadside motel, it costs almost as much to rent her room as it does to buy a half - gallon of water from the front water from the front desk.

Try replacing the radiator cap and just in case keep a gallon of distilled water to top it off as needed (add corresponding amount of antifreeze when you get home).

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 sWhen 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 swhen 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.

Skin - So - Soft ® (SSS) has been shown to partially repel fleas when topically applied at a concentration of 1.5 ounces of SSS per gallon of water.

Avon's Skin - So - Soft ®: Skin - So - Soft has been shown to partially repel fleas when topically applied at a concentration of 1.5 ounces of SSS per gallon of water.

When the tank was filled in April 2010 about 1,000 gallons of tritium - laden water poured onto the ground at a concentration of 2 million picocuries per liter.

When Enbridge's Pipeline 6B split open in 2009 and spilled one million gallons of dilbit into the Kalamazoo River, near Marshall, Michigan, the dilbit initially floated on the water like conventional crude.

And when the externalities of the product are taken into account (such as the estimated 37 gallons of water used to make a single roll of TP), the environmental cost is much higher than the «everyday low price» listed on the shelf.

When a lens is used to concentrate the sunlight striking the membrane panels, up to 6 liters (over 1.5 gallons) of clean drinking water can be produced per hour per square meter of panel.

We are a plant based food lifestyle and I winced when I had to send a half eaten tomato that was hidden behind something on the counter, and not edible, to the composter, because all I saw was the gallon of water that we used to grow the tomato plant.

The process uses a huge amount of water — the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation estimates as much as 1 million gallons per well — at a time when water is already a limiting and precious resource.

We believe that fracking poses a tremendous threat to agriculture, to our drinking water, and to our climate, because when you are injecting millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand, four or five miles underground at very high pressure and breaking open the rock and releasing gas there's all sorts of contamination that can happen.

When damp mopping, an ideal solution is a combination of 1 gallon of water with 1 cup vinegar or 1⁄3 cup of non-sudsing ammonia.