Sentences with phrase «last water reserve»

He Qingcheng, head of the groundwater monitoring team, notes that as the deep aquifer is depleted, the region is losing its last water reserve — its only safety cushion.

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The next time you make brown rice, use the same procedure as above, but add the soaking liquid you reserved from the last batch to the rest of the soaking water.

County Executive Steve Bellone signed a $ 2.7 billion spending plan last Monday, after the Legislature decided to use nearly $ 33 million from the county's sewer stabilization fund, a reserve account created when Suffolk County taxpayers first approved the Drinking Water Protection Program via referendum in 1987.

One afternoon last summer, Pat Mulroy stood in 106 - degree heat at the broad concrete banister atop the Hoover Dam, the wall that holds back the mighty Colorado River, and with it the nation's largest reserve of water.

Last summer the Tortugas Ecological Reserve was established 80 miles west of Key West; it covers just 197 square miles of coral reefs and fish spawning grounds, but that makes it the largest reserve yet in American waters.

Last week, the Pacific Island nation of Palau was the most recent nation to announce the designation of a large - scale marine reserve in its waters.

Also, keep a reserve supply of horse feed and water on hand that will last for at least 72 hours.