Sentences with phrase «into water reservoirs»

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Another was opting to reinject produced water into the reservoirs to maintain pressure, through a closed circuit and without discharges into the ocean.
That plastic sheet might be converted into any number of seemingly unrelated products: a flexible bag to package nuts for retail sale; a liner (officially a «geomembrane») meant to sit atop a water reservoir; or a vapour barrier used in walls in newly built residential construction projects.
SAGD involves removing bitumen (a thick form of crude oil) from the ground by injecting steam into an oil sands reservoir and pumping the oil and water mixture to the surface.
They should put their energy into building fresh water reservoirs.
Some pins are coated with enamel paint and clear acrylics, but the best are those fashioned with cloisonnè enamel — a powdered, colored glass that is mixed with water, brushed into tiny reservoirs on the pin face and fired in a furnace.
You have to fill the insulated container with boiling water, then pour this into the «reservoir» lid when ready, and now simply place the bottle or jar of food inside.
Furthermore, with the reservoir, the water sinks back into it once the timer stops and the auto shut - off function kicks in.
It needs to be plugged into an outlet and its reservoir of water filled up at all times for this machine to work.
This humidifier connects to your water supply and pools some water into a reservoir.
It also allocates $ 303 million to complete a new tunnel linking New York City to its upstate drinking water reservoirs, $ 571 million for bridge maintenance and repair, $ 1 billion for roof repairs at the New York City Housing Authority, $ 478 million to bring more public ramps into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, $ 5.2 million for bullet - proof window inserts on NYPD patrol cars and $ 275 million to upgrade a police shooting range in the Bronx.
Built by the City ofNew Yorkbetween 1909 and 1912 in the last years of its Catskills reservoir construction, the tunnel was designed to divert water from theMain Streetand Tannery creeks into the Esopus Creek, which the city had «surcharged» (taken water from) to feed the Ashokan Reservoir.
A spokesman for DEP — they always have an answer — said the issue wasn't muddy water released in torrents into the Esopus from the reservoir, but the quality of water coming out of taps in Gotham.
«So whether it's not groundwater or surface water, the Tomhannaok reservoir, we're asking them to explain to us how those supplies would be tapped into,» said Seggos.
You can brew into the included glass carafe to make up to four shots from the four - cup water reservoir.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into these cosmic reservoirs to gain new insights into the origin and evolution of water and other key building blocks for habitable planets.
The well was in a seismically active zone of the Rangely oil reservoir in Colorado, and Chevron had been injecting water into the well to stimulate petroleum production.
The snow and rain that comes in the cold season runs off into reservoirs, where it is stored for drinking water, agriculture, hydropower and other uses.
Root pressure is created by water moving from its reservoir in the soil into the root tissue by osmosis (diffusion along a concentration gradient).
Water harvesting materials usually work by trapping droplets or helping them travel into a reservoir efficiently — they don't do both.
The reservoir — if constructed — would be built outside of the region, where the rock is not porous, and pipe some 60 million gallons of water a day into Broward County.
Image shows a cold water geyser driven by carbon dioxide erupting from an unplugged oil exploration well drilled in 1936 into a natural CO2 reservoir in Utah.
The flooded area totaled three square miles in 12 different segments of the park, and salt water had poured into four freshwater ponds, or «tanks» (man - made water reservoirs up to several miles wide that were created by Sri Lankan kings in the 12th century).
That is apparently what happened to the 99 villagers of Miaohe, 10 miles (17 kilometers) upstream of the Yangtze, who saw the land behind their homes split into a 655 - foot -(200 - meter --RRB- wide crack last year, soon after the reservoir water level was lowered for the summer floods.
Surplus power could be used for charging electric vehicles and for «pumped storage,» where water is pumped uphill into a reservoir to produce hydropower later.
An analysis of earthquakes in the area around the Salton Sea Geothermal Field in southern California has found a strong correlation between seismic activity and operations for production of geothermal power, which involve pumping water into and out of an underground reservoir.
It has long been understood that earthquakes can be induced by impoundment of water in reservoirs, surface and underground mining, withdrawal of fluids and gas from the subsurface, and injection of fluids into underground formations.
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.
The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.
An alternative technique, called solubility trapping, pumps the CO2 into brine held within the rock, to create an underground reservoir of carbonated water.
July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand.
The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.
This would transform a free - flowing freshwater ecosystem into an artificial slack - water reservoir combined with salt water.
Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.
But while a catastrophic situation was narrowly avoided by the transfer of water reserves into the metropolitan area's parched reservoirs, Brazil may not be out of the woods just yet.
That «could translate into a drop in water supply for meeting irrigation demands and adversely impact hydropower operations at reservoirs,» the Interior Department said recently.
Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.
«TARP consists of 110 miles of tunnels and reservoirs, which are actually old limestone quarries that capture and hold storm water and raw sewage until it can be treated at waste water treatment plants and discharged into the canals and rivers.»
Led by Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.
Being washed into water sources like reservoirs and rivers.
As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.
The expanded air will push the spring loaded seal of the radiator cap up allowing for high pressure steam and water to exit the system into the reservoir.
This was leading to pressure coming back up into the reservoir and pushing water out of the pressure release valve, which is why I was losing water.
Inside the Kold machine, an «aerospace - inspired» contraption of thermoelectric conductors and a small propeller draw water from a reservoir up into the machine and help cool it to about four degrees Celsius, meaning ice is unnecessary.
Spilled food is contained around the bowl, while spilled water drains into the bowl's lower reservoir.
If you're using one side for water and the water gets spilled, it drains into the reservoir that is below the bowl.
The Gruta is situated in the parish of Santa Clara, in the northwest part of Ponta Delgada and is integrated into the Monumento Natural Regional da Gruta do Carvão (Regional Natural Monument of Gruta do Carvão), to the northwest of water reservoirs of SMAS, along Rua do Paim.
The operation received water from four springs, El Pato, Gallina, The Dindos and The Peacock, which fed into a 26,000 gallon reservoir, tanks and dams.
When installed as part of the fourth Shanghai Biennale, water cascaded over the sculpture, eventually turning the reservoir at its base into an inky black pool.
The Water in the West initiative at Stanford University has produced an invaluable package of analysis, graphics and recommendations on groundwater management, concluding that groundwater recharge — moving water from the surface into the state's natural subterranean aquifers — is far cheaper than other alternatives that are currently being developed, like added dams and surface reservoirs or desalination plWater in the West initiative at Stanford University has produced an invaluable package of analysis, graphics and recommendations on groundwater management, concluding that groundwater recharge — moving water from the surface into the state's natural subterranean aquifers — is far cheaper than other alternatives that are currently being developed, like added dams and surface reservoirs or desalination plwater from the surface into the state's natural subterranean aquifers — is far cheaper than other alternatives that are currently being developed, like added dams and surface reservoirs or desalination plants:
The dam builders have tried to address one of the problems with traditional dams by designing projects that divert water through tunnels to power turbines rather than constructing large reservoirs, and by capturing silt and sending it back into the riverbeds.
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