Sentences with phrase «hundreds of gallons of water»

A leaky toilet can also waste hundreds of gallons of water a week.

A leaky faucet that's not tended to can also waste hundreds of gallons of water a year, especially if it's hot water that's lost.

The savings in water are obvious, but we are apt to forget the electricity that it takes to pump the hundreds of gallons of water yearly that our household will now conserve.

Here, on June 17, a helicopter releases hundreds of gallons of water onto the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska.

The waterlines emptied into tarp - sealed pits that could store hundreds of gallons of water.

Feldstein went online and sourced a pump in Iowa used mainly on pig farms that could clear hundreds of gallons of water a minute, and paid to fly it in.

Not exact matches

He's amassed a year's worth of canned and dry food, dozens of gallons of water, hundreds of water purification tablets, and a small cache of weapons in a old U-Haul truck outside his western Oregon home in preparation for «doomsday,» the end - times scenario based upon the ancient Mayan calendar hitting a symbolic turning point this month.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a long history of accidental radioactive leaks and spills: spent fuel pools at the plant housing toxic nuclear waste have been leaking since the 1990s; corroded buried pipes have sprung radioactive leaks; tanks have spilled hundreds of gallons radioactively contaminated water; and malfunctioning valves and pumps have leaked radionuclide - laden water.

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.»

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.

Where the numbers really pile up is in the operation of Kennedy Space Center, which includes pumping 300,000 gallons of water to protect the shuttle from launch vibrations, moving the rockets, and keeping hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen cool.

Needles, despite its proximity to the physical river itself, gets most of its water from underground — pumping hundreds of million gallons a year from four wells drilled into the local aquifer.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

Federal officials believe the subsidy program could successfully prod ranchers to put hundreds of billions of gallons of water back into the river and help relieve the shortages plaguing states downstream.

The team has developed a microgenerator capable of producing 3 kilowatts of electric power plus hundreds of gallons of hot water each day using relatively inexpensive, readily available components such as auto parts.

Almost a thousand pounds of epsom salt is dissolved in a couple hundred gallons of water, creating an almost zero gravity environment.

The tank holds 385,0000 US gallons of water and about seven hundreds of wild species.

You can change the water level by shattering windows, exploding walls and opening doors, the sudden influx of a few hundred gallons of sea water into a tight corridor or compartment aiding in drowning, electrocuting or unbalancing enemies long enough to gain the upper hand.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

Developments for wealthy or even the poor can be made anywhere in california, since cheap reverse osmosis units can take water from the ocean and supply hundreds of gallons to a house for less than the price of a bottle of water from a machine.

A single acre filters millions of gallons of ocean water every day, creates homes for hundreds of wild marine and bird species and absorbs the overabundance of nitrogen and carbon (with kelp sequestering 5x more carbon than land based - plants) that are killing billions of organisms.

The largest of the models, the 1080XL, has a canopy measuring 20 meters by 20 meters and is said to be capable of producing a peak of 45kW while also collecting and filtering hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per year, depending on local rainfall amounts.

Hundreds or thousands of gallons of water spraying a room for hours causes major damage.