Sentences with phrase «including water withdrawals»
The new study is one of the first to provide a global accounting of regional and local water impacts, taking into account seasonal changes and different types of intervention, including water withdrawals, reservoir regulation, land - use change, and irrigation.
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Other human activites linked to seismic activity include hydraulic fracturing, in which a water mixture gets pumped underground to break up rocks and release gas, and fluid withdrawal, which can refer to the withdrawal of oil and gas, groundwater or hot water / steam for geothermal power, the USGS says.
These measures were to include a water management framework that protects river flows from excessive tar sands water withdrawals.
Natural gas gross withdrawals are a measure of full well stream production including all natural gas plant liquids and nonhydrocarbon gases after oil, lease condensate, and water have been removed.
Nationally, wind deployment delivers public health and environmental benefits, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions, reduced air pollutants, and reduced water consumption and withdrawals.
However, NREL's 80 - percent - by - 2050 renewable energy study, which included biomass and geothermal, found that total water consumption and withdrawal would decrease significantly in a future with high renewables [7].
EPA's authority to review applications for consistency with the law comes from Section 404 (c) which authorizes and compels EPA to determine whether permitted activities would result in «significant and unacceptable adverse impacts on municipal water supplies, and prohibit, restrict, or deny, including withdrawal, the use of any defined area as a disposal site.»
The withdrawal of the clean power plan is the latest in a series of moves by Trump and Pruitt to dismantle Obama's legacy on fighting climate change, including the delay or roll back of rules limiting levels of toxic pollution in chimney emissions and waste water discharges from coal - burning power plants.
The Act maintains the use of the term «work» however, rather than taking a broader approach that includes processes or actions that may affect navigable water such as water withdrawal and flow regulation.
Earlier, as CM for NAVFAC, managed construction and commissioned key elements of this campus including Sea Water Withdrawal for HVAC and aquatic facilities including captive care facility for fish and marine mammals,...