Sentences with phrase «increased water storage»

Like many fungi, Amanita pantherina feeds off of sugars and carbohydrates excreted by the tree's roots, while the tree benefits from the increased water storage of the fungus.

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

However Little Ice Age stability defies the physics of cooling temperatures and increasing water storage in growing glaciers that should have caused a significant sea level fall.

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.

«The industry response [to climate change] has largely been to increase snowmaking and increase water storage,» he laments, «not, «Let's lobby hard for legislation and start being more energy efficient.»»

Alberta's focus appears to be on increasing water storage and using the water allocation management system, which is currently under review, to manage risk in times of water scarcity.

Not exact matches

- Drinking water and wastewater infrastructure upgraded - Advanced treatment installed for both drinking water and wastewater, and advanced filtration systems installed for drinking water - Green infrastructure and open spaces built for source water protection - «[E] nsuring proper management and storage of common contaminants like manure and road salt to prevent runoff; and increasing the state Superfund to expedite the cleanup of hazardous waste that may impact sources of drinking water.»

«In poor areas, people don't necessarily have access to good running water, so they store water, and that water storage increases [mosquito] breeding sites.»

New measurements from a NASA satellite have allowed researchers to identify and quantify, for the first time, how climate - driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected the rate of sea level rise.

Buildings with storage tanks can face increased risks from chlorine - resistant bacteria in water, according to researchers at the University of Strathclyde.

This increase in water levels matches an increase in precipitation observed during that same period (Figure 3 - 19) and suggests that climate — and specifically mountain precipitation — as and is the primary driver of Madison Limestone aquifer water levels (i.e., groundwater replenishment and storage).

Such programs, best undertaken in an adaptive management framework, include, but are not limited to, reducing fire risk; managing forest diseases; improving forest establishment; increasing forest carbon storage; improving water availability and soil quality; improving forest diversity, structure, and resilience; and increasing genetic and phenotypic diversity of forests.

«With increasing changes in weather patterns and more frequent severe storms, we need to look at bigger opportunities to create more water storage further up our river catchments.

One explanation (ix) conceived in the 1980s invokes more stratification, less upwelling of carbon and nutrient - rich waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean and increased carbon storage at depth during glacial times.

They talk about increasing fat oxidation rates, preserving lean mass, supporting the thyroid, inducing thermogenesis, inhibiting enzymes related to fat storage, inducing enzymes that cause fat loss, manipulating hormone and neurotransmitter levels, reducing water retention, improving nutrient partitioning, and more.

Non-functional hypertrophy, also termed sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, leads to an increased energy storage in the muscle combined with more water being stored in the muscle and resulting in bigger muscles.

More than likely, the weight you gained was water weight from increased calories and glycogen storage.

Creatine also increases the water content in your muscles, improves glycogen storage, and improves high - intensity muscle performance.

Stowage space around the cabin has increased, too, with the rear doors now accommodating 1 - liter water bottles, plus two removable cupholders in the front center console and a storage cubby under the front center armrests.

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...

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

of anthropogenic CO2 releases that have been taken out of the atmosphere (over and above the amount taken out of the atmosphere that balances the natural additions to the atmosphere), perhaps mainly as a direct biogeochemical feedback (increased CO2 favoring more rapid biological fixation of C, net flux of CO2 into water until equilibrium for the given storage of other involved chemical species in the upper ocean) fairly promptly.

These results indicate a need for adaptation strategies in Indonesian rice agriculture, including increased investments in water storage, drought - tolerant crops, crop diversification, and early warning systems.

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).

Likewise, Cazenave 2014 had published according to altimetry data, sea level had decelerated from 3.5 mm / yr in the 1990s to 2.5 mm / yr during 2003 - 2011, and that deceleration could be explained by increased terrestrial water storage, and the pause in ocean warming reported by Argo data.

SLR satellite data includes things such as the «GIA Adjustment» — which is the amount of SLR that there would have been if the ocean basin hadn't increased in volume and in the case of this new study, how much higher the sea surface would have been if it had not been suppressed by the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, another correction for ENSO / PDO «computed via a joint cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function (CSEOF) analysis of altimeter GMSL, GRACE land water storage, and Argo - based thermosteric sea level from 2005 to present», as well as other additions and adjustments — NONE OF WHICH can actually be found manifested in any change to the physical Sea Surface Height.»

Subtitle J: Miscellaneous -(Sec. 195) Requires the Department of the Interior, DOE, and the Department of the Army to: (1) jointly update the study of the potential for increasing electric power production capability at federally owned or operated water regulation, storage, and conveyance facilities, including an update on facilities that are capable, with our without modification, of producing additional hydroelectric power; and (2) report to specified committees on their findings.

It argues that investments should start with low - regret options, with measures that tackle the weather risks that countries already face, such as increased investment in water storage in drought - prone basins or protection against storms and flooding in coastal zones and / or urban areas.

He favors shoring up California's water supply by increasing conservation, expanding alternative storage projects like groundwater banking and scrutinizing big water users, even re-evaluating the state's water rights system.

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.

Even where increases are projected, there can be short - term shortages due to more variable streamflow (because of greater variability of precipitation), and seasonal reductions of water supply due to reduced snow and ice storage.

More than one - sixth of the world's population live in glacier - or snowmelt - fed river basins and will be affected by the seasonal shift in streamflow, an increase in the ratio of winter to annual flows, and possibly the reduction in low flows caused by decreased glacier extent or snow water storage (high confidence)[3.4.1, 3.4.3].

The vast areas of open water in 2007 and 2008 increased the amount of summer ocean heat storage.

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.

After extracting the influence of land water storage, it is shown that the GMSL have been rising at a rate of 4.4 ± 0.5 mm / yr for more than three years, due to an increase in the rate of both land ice loss and steric change.

The length of the growing season in interior Alaska has increased 45 % over the last century7 and that trend is projected to continue.8 This could improve conditions for agriculture where moisture is adequate, but will reduce water storage and increase the risks of more extensive wildfire and insect outbreaks across much of Alaska.9, 10 Changes in dates of snowmelt and freeze - up would influence seasonal migration of birds and other animals, increase the likelihood and rate of northerly range expansion of native and non-native species, alter the habitats of both ecologically important and endangered species, and affect ocean currents.11

Secondly, the freshening of Antarctic surface water induces a slowdown of the lower overturning circulation, leading to an increase of the biological carbon storage in the Southern Ocean.

The prototype system which couples a solar hot water heater with a tankless water heater plus small storage tank and circulator, is expected to provide energy savings, water savings, and increased temperature control at the domestic taps at a small incremental cost relative to the same solar hot water heater coupled with only a tankless water heater.

This discussion suggests three important conclusions: (i) the effect of changes in terrestrial water storage on sea level may be considerable; (ii) the net effect on sea level could be of either sign, and (iii) the rate has increased over the last few decades (in the assessment of Gornitz et al. (1997) from near zero at the start of the century to 0.8 mm / yr in 1990).

For example, the projected increase in extremely low precipitation and extremely high temperature during spring and autumn has substantial implications for snowpack water storage, wildfire risk, and terrestrial ecosystems (47).

One of the theories put forth by the mainstream scientific community to explain the slow - down since 1998 has been increased storage of warm water in the Pacific Ocean.

For instance, unlike traditional surface storage solutions, conservation, efficiency, groundwater storage, and western water markets are not vulnerable to increased evaporation as temperatures rise.

In the case of El Hierro, where the storage solution is a water reservoir purpose - excavated for the system, the easiest way to increase the duration of the storage would be to make the grid smarter, so that electricity is mostly consumed when wind is blowing.

Well look at the recent gas line explosion in San Bruno, California to see just how wonderful our existing infrastructure in California is, or look at the state of our water system, which is antiquated and in dire need of more water storage to take care of the needs of an increasing population.

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

Increased heat storage in the upper polar ocean leading to destabilization of shallow - water methane hydrates and massive CH4 / CO2 fluxes to the atmosphere would not be good news (I'm assuming I can skip a discussion of petroleum geology and the various routes of methane formation).

It includes high - performance steam generators, a neutron reflector around the core to increase fuel economy, redundant core cooling systems and refueling water storage inside the containment building, and fully digital instrumentation and control systems.

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 researchers do not yet know whether the draining water is increasing glacial flow, and nor can they be sure how many such depressions in the Greenland ice mask buried meltwater storage tanks.

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.