Sentences with phrase «large water volumes»

To understand sea - level change means understanding not only the transfer of land ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field of the Earth changes as inconceivably large water volumes shift around the planet.

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Instead of requiring a large volume of water, Xeros employs small polymer beads to clean clothes and linens, minimizing water, detergent and electricity use.

Here is what you do: rinse the beans very well, then place them in a large mixing bowl with enough water to cover by double their volume.

While your rice is soaking, put water, double the volume of dry rice (for 1 cup rice 2 cups water) into a large pot and bring it to a boil.

The plants have large capacities and can quickly produce large volumes in the events of emergencies when bottled water is in great demand, he says.

It is also one of the easiest plant milks to make at home, simply by boiling rice with a large volume of water, blending and then straining the mixture.

Most brands contain only around 2 % almonds, with the largest volume ingredient being water.

Place in a large jar, cover with water, double the volume of the cashews, about 4 cups.

Asahi remains the largest player in bottled water, based on volumes, because it accounts for 80 per cent of private label water.

It is the single largest volume of water committed by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder to water committed by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder to Water Holder to date.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, David Papps said the multi-use event would see a large volume (up to 634 GLs) of Commonwealth environmental water made available to supplement a series of environmental water flows generated by the StWater Holder, David Papps said the multi-use event would see a large volume (up to 634 GLs) of Commonwealth environmental water made available to supplement a series of environmental water flows generated by the Stwater made available to supplement a series of environmental water flows generated by the Stwater flows generated by the States.

Put the chickpeas in a large bowl and cover with water by 3 or 4 inches — the beans will triple in volume as they soak.

During spring in 2016 - 17, a small volume of Commonwealth environmental water contributed to increasing river connectivity in the Mehi River and Carole Creek during a large natural flow event.

Brands such as Poland Spring ®, Nestlé ® Pure Life ®, Perrier ® and S. Pellegrino ® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Nestlé Waters North America also owns and operates ReadyRefreshSM by Nestlé ®, the largest home and office water delivery service by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with some 8,500 associates, Nestlé Waters is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across its operations.

Brands such as Poland Spring ® Brand 100 % Natural Spring Water, Deer Park ® Brand Natural Spring Water, Nestlé ® Pure Life ®, Perrier ® and San Pellegrino ® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with about 8,500 employees nationwide, Nestlé Waters North America is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across operations.

The company also owns and operates ReadyRefreshSM by Nestlé ®, the largest home and office water delivery service by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with some 8,500 associates, we are committed to reducing our environmental footprint across our operations.

Nestlé Waters North America is the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume and offers a range of healthy bottled water products as well as flavorful ready - to - drink teas.

The Ölfus Spring is one of the world's largest sources of fresh water, in fact it yields so much water that the overflow alone is around twice the volume of bottled water consumed worldwide.

The ban applied to high - volume hydraulic fracturing, which uses large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals to create fractures in rock that release gas.

The process involves injecting large volumes of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, deep into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas.

The state's final ban is on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, which uses large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals to create fractures in rock that release gas.

In fact, the much larger volume of regular Joe offsets the caffeine to water ratio.

The fifth and sixth planets, both in the habitable zone, are more than half water — a volume so large that the water pressure alone could force much of it into a form of ice, Unterborn says.

One reason is that it allows water to flow through at a larger volume and with less turbulence.

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it had been and leaving large areas dry (see map).

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.

Simply, a soil pore that is twice as large as another will conduct sixteen times the volume of water as the smaller pore in the same amount of time.

Features like giant gravel current ripples and displaced 65 - foot - wide boulders in the Scablands could not be explained by changes in the nearby Columbia River, he wrote — the flow and volume of whatever water source formed them would have to be exponentially larger.

Larger areas are thought to be generally more effective than smaller ones, Pauly says, because they have a smaller area of edge per volume of protected waters, meaning that there is less opportunity for outside influences, such as illegal fishermen or pollution, to creep into the protected area.

He notes that of the nearly 4,000 papers published on microbial fuel cells, less than 2 percent report on processing volumes of water larger than one liter.

Dynamic pressure drops happen whenever there is a sudden change in velocity, for example when there are valve or pump failures, or sudden demands on the system, such as when large volumes of water are required for fighting a fire.

Humpback whales commonly feed on large prey shoals by accelerating to high speeds and «lunging» at their prey, engulfing a large volume of water and filtering out the prey through their filter feeders.

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it was and leaving large areas dry.

Low storage capacity despite the large volume of water involved.

The study shows that the annual volume of SGD for the whole Mediterranean basin ranges from 30 to 500 billion cubic metres, which demonstrates that this process is relevant at large scale and its discharge is similar or up to 15 times greater than that of river water inputs.

Urban water consumption also generates large volumes of wastewater.

And the third was large volumes of cold fresh water from melting snow entering Mobile Bay — an inlet in the Gulf of Mexico — in 2011.

Fracking involves injecting large volumes of water, sand and toxic chemicals underground with explosive force that fractures the rock and helps it release trapped hydrocarbons.

Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its water volume over the last 50 years.

The water gains over land were spread globally, but taken together they equal the volume of Lake Huron, the world's seventh largest lake.

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

Finding ways to treat and dispose of or recycle the large volume of chemical - laden flowback water and brine - laden wastewater that is produced over the lifetime of an unconventional oil or gas well also poses challenges, the researchers noted.

Additionally, the new estimate of the amount of water needed to sculpt the valleys is at least one order of magnitude larger than the volume of a hypothesized ocean and 4,000 times the volume of the valley cavities, Luo said.

By that time, the methane plume had begun to disperse into a larger volume of water, but Joye's team continued to find methane concentrations up to 1,000 times higher than prespill levels in some places.

«Because there is a large volume of fluid, the water can react with the rock to generate hydrogen and methane.

This is the seventh year for the Bay outlook which, because of the shallow nature of large areas of the estuary, focuses on water volume or cubic miles, instead of square mileage as used in the Gulf.

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.

Higher grade tumors correlate with higher restricted water volume in the cancer cells» large nuclei.

«The deep Pacific is such an enormously large volume of water that [this warming] reflects the input of a tremendous amount of energy into the global system.»

The lava erupted explosively in shallow waters producing large volumes of a glassy pyroclastic rock called hyaloclastite.