Sentences with phrase «large water reservoir»

The large water reservoir holds 25 oz of water.

You want to avoid hydroponic setups that won't fit in your available space, but a larger garden also means a larger water reservoir and more pods to grow plants in.

Larger water reservoirs are great for making espresso or lattes for a group.

Though not in the familiar liquid form — the ingredients for water are bound up in rock deep in the Earth's mantle — the discovery may represent the planet's largest water reservoir.

Yet its reliance on large water reservoirs, which can't be easily constructed near power markets, limits the growth potential of this energy option.

Trinity Lake in northern California, one of the state's largest water reservoirs, was at 30 percent capacity in August.

Not exact matches

Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.

The water reservoir of the machine is on the larger end, with the capacity of 72 oz.

Sometimes called «wick humidifiers» these include a large wick or «wet wick filter» which draws up water from the reservoir.

With this large coffee maker, you will be able to hold up to 10 cups of water in the reservoir, so you can save yourself some time on refilling it.

New Delhi's endemic shortfalls occur largely because water managers decided some years back to divert large amounts from upstream rivers and reservoirs to irrigate crops.

Since 1915, the average snowpack in western states has declined by between 15 and 30 percent, the researchers say, and the amount of water lost from that snowpack reduction is comparable in volume to Lake Mead, the West's largest manmade reservoir.

«The amount of water in the snowpack of the western United States is roughly equivalent to all of the stored water in the largest reservoirs of those states,» Mote said.

To put that figure in perspective, it's nearly 1 1/2 times the total capacity of Lake Mead — the nation's largest reservoir and the West's most important — and as much water as the state of Arizona uses in six years.

Koyna is also unique because the borehole will be near a large dam, where the rise and fall of reservoir water levels frequently induces earthquakes.

Water and Power «The Roosevelt Dam in southern Arizona, recently completed, contains over 350,000 cubic yards of masonry, and forms the largest artificial reservoir now in existence; the construction of this reservoir required the expenditure of nearly $ 300,000 in wagon roads alone, to make the region accessible and to replace public roads submerged by the artificial lake.»

Andreas Maeck and colleagues point out that the large reservoirs of water behind the world's 50,000 large dams are a known source of methane.

«Additionally, mines may become larger, deeper, and more extensive, surface water reservoir impoundments more common, and buildings on larger scales could be built to meet a growing world population and resource demand,» he said.

Large - scale interventions to water resources, such as irrigation, dams and reservoirs, and water withdrawals, have been essential to human development.

This could indicate a reservoir of water, also related to a large sea beneath the surface.

Water levels in major reservoirs have steadily declined over the past decade; some analysts project that the largest may never refill.

The excavation of hundreds of kilometers from coast to coast, traversing Lake Nicaragua, the largest drinking - water reservoir in the region, will destroy around 400,000 hectares of rainforests and wetlands.

Native American tribes and climate activists have vowed to fight the pipeline, fearing it will desecrate sacred sites and endanger a source of the country's largest drinking water reservoir.

Monthly measurements in the change in water mass from December 2004 to November 2013 revealed the basin lost nearly 53 million acre feet (65 cubic kilometers) of freshwater, almost double the volume of the nation's largest reservoir, Nevada's Lake Mead.

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

MSR Dromedary Bags: These will make it seem more like hiking with a reservoir than having a hydration pack on your back, but when it comes to water storage for a large adventure, you can't beat MSR's Dromedary Bags.

Nestled between Glenmore Trail, Crowchild Trail and 37th Street (the westerly border of the Calgary city limits), the neighbourhood was originally named because of the view that area residents had of the Glenmore Reservoir — a large, artificial reservoir on the Elbow River that's a primary source of drinking water for the city.

Other large towns do provide some of the basic utilities, while some smaller areas use septic tanks and reservoirs for water and provide their own electric.

Photo: The desolated village of Arenal, with a main street paved by lava, was covered a few years later when Costa Rica's largest hydroelectric project, the Lake Arenal Dam, created an extensive water reservoir.

Be Dammed is a research - based project by artist Carolina Caycedo that explores concepts of flow and containment, investigating correlations between the mechanisms of social control and the unethical aspects of public works infrastructural projects including large water dams and reservoirs.

In addition, the repeated filling and emptying of water from large reservoirs such as in Lake Mead behind the Hoover Dam all have been responsible for human induced earthquakes.

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.

La Paz's main water supplies come from rainwater and melt - off from tropical glaciers in the Cordillera Real range, which includes Chacaltaya and the Tuni - Condoriri glacial system set in the mountains above the region's largest reservoir.

Damming rivers isn't necessarily the only way to extract energy from Earth's water cycle either, though practical large - scale alternatives would require real new technologies like artificial high - altitude reservoirs, or latent heat extractors like the atmospheric vortex ideas.

According to the paper to be published in BioScience next week, water reservoirs actually produce a large amount of greenhouse gases.

Canada's Boreal Forest is also the reservoir for a large fraction of North America's clean, fresh water, home to about 5 billion migratory birds, and some of the largest remaining populations of caribou, moose, bear and wolves on the planet.

More than 109 cubic km (26 cubic miles) of groundwater disappeared between 2002 and 2008 — double the capacity of India's largest surface water reservoir, the Upper Wainganga, and triple that of Lake Mead, the largest man - made reservoir in the United States...

On February 11, 2017 — less than 1 year after the worst drought in 1200 years [3][4][5][6][7][8]-- 3 of the largest reservoirs were simultaneously dumping water into the ocean for flood control.

The ocean is the world's largest reservoir of water, providing more than 75 % of Earth's evaporated and precipitated water.

But these large reservoirs of heat warm the air over them, that warm air and water vapor is then transported over land, which adds to surface temps.

At the same time, eutrophication may promote larger CH4 emissions, both by reducing O2 concentrations in reservoir bottom waters and by increasing organic matter quantity (as described below).

Here, we report mean areal (per unit surface area) CH4 fluxes from reservoir water surfaces that are approximately 25 % larger than previous estimates (120.4 mg CH4 - C per m2 per day, SD = 286.6), CO2 flux estimates that are approximately 30 % smaller than previous estimates (329.7 mg CO2 - C per m2 per day, SD = 447.7), and the first - ever global mean estimate of reservoir N2O fluxes (0.30 mg N2O - N per m2 per day, SD = 0.9; table 1).

The Columbia and Snake Rivers have a large number of run - of - river hydroelectric dams and a smaller number of larger dams with reservoirs designed to control the flow of water on the river.

In seawater, CO2 interacts with water molecules to form carbonic acid, which reacts very quickly with the large reservoir of dissolved inorganic carbon — bicarbonate and carbonate ions — in the ocean.

In 2016 the firm completed a 6.3 MW floating solar array — Europe's largest at the time — on London's Queen Elizabeth II reservoir on behalf of Thames Water, a project that eventually went on to win that year's large - scale PV Solar Power Portal Award, from the sister publication of PV Tech.

This forcing has a particularly strong and direct impact on the surface energy cycle, but interacts with many aspects of the surface and column - integrated water and energy cycles through dynamical convergence, leading to large diurnal fluctuations in the atmospheric reservoir of water vapor and total dry energy.

The valley is gifted by nature with large reservoirs of water in the shape of glaciers.

These partially offsetting effects lead to the expectation that direct human shifts in water storage on land will not have large effects on sea level in comparison to the effects of ocean warming and mountain - glacier and ice - sheet melting (Wada et al., 2012), although notable uncertainties remain in regards to future groundwater use and reservoir construction, and these effects vary considerably depending on the specific location (NRC, 2012e).

However, the amount of water stored in this ice is estimated to be less than 0.5 m of sea - level equivalent (Lemke et al., 2007), so the contribution to sea - level rise can not be especially large before the reservoir is depleted.

We already know that the largest reservoir in the US — Lake Mead — contained less than half the amount of water in 2015 as it did in 2000.