Sentences with phrase «increase water storage capacity»

Newsom wants to increase water storage capacity to deal with droughts, but would have the state invest in alternatives to dams such as recharging groundwater supplies and increasing water recycling.

To compound matters, the porosity of the crushed rocks increases the water storage capacity of the valley fills.

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Example: ``... water storage capacity in a region, taking into account that the supply of the resource, the flow into the reserve, is uncertain, that a measure of the uncertainty, the variance, is likely to increase with climate change...

Additionally, the pumped - storage plant itself effectively increased the company's efficiency (by pumping water to a holding pond at night thereby taking advantage of unused generating capacity) while improving its environmental credentials (the hydro plant emitted no air pollution).

A mere 16,400 hectares of land will be irrigated, while water storage capacity will increase from 3 to 24 % of the annual surface water availability.

In wetter regions, more intense seasonal droughts can be managed by current water - supply systems and by adaptation; for example, demand can be reduced by using water more efficiently, or supply can be increased by increasing the storage capacity in reservoirs.

Its water storage capacity increased 26 % to 42 million acre feet.

Some time ago I posted on hugelkultur raised bed gardening — an initially labor intensive method of growing that involves burying massive amounts of woody biomass underneath your growing bed, providing a long - term release of nutrients and a greatly increased water - storage capacity as the materials slowly rot down.

The new pipeline would triple the amount of diluted bitumen transported through a seismically active area of the Southwest coast of British Columbia, double the oil storage tank capacity on Burnaby Mountain above heavily populated areas and dramatically increase the number of Aframax tankers required to ship the oil from Kinder Morgan's marine terminal through Burrard Inlet and coastal waters.