Sentences with phrase «likely sources of water»

What the game has for a back story is that two groups of pigs are fighting over water resources, so the control points are likely sources of water.

Based on the data they have, however, the team has concluded that the most likely source of water causing those RSLs is the atmosphere.

«Oceans arrived early to Earth; Primitive meteorites were a likely source of water, study finds.»

Not exact matches

Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

Women and children usually bear the burden of water collection, walking miles to the nearest source, which is unprotected and likely contaminated.

The city's water supply, Lake Washington, is near the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Orange County, which the state Department of Environmental Conservation declared a Superfund site because it is likely the source of the pollution.

It suggests to Farihi that both the hydrogen and the heavy elements come from the same source — planetary debris — which would be most likely to hold hydrogen in the form of water.

Professor Bill Keevil, Director of Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton, says: «If a contamination event (accidental or deliberate) occurs in a drinking water network, it is essential to identify the sources of contamination and to determine the area which is likely to be contaminated, in order to isolate and decontaminate the affected area only, as well as keep supplying drinking water in non-affected areas.

«Because the contributions are in kind and members are not obliged to tell us what it cost them, we will never have a detailed cost of ITER,» Claessens said, adding that participants will likely have to wait until 2027 before they figure out for certain whether this is a game - changing energy source or just the most expensive way to boil water ever built.

If one were to suggest that wastewater could be used as an efficient source of fresh water, a likely rejoinder would be serious doubt and, at the very least, a pinched face and a declaration along the lines of «Ew, that's gross.»

Bar - Zeev acknowledges that water will likely be a source of conflict in the Middle East in the future.

In other words, finding trace amounts of contaminants such as fecal matter in water systems can help sound the alarm for a serious contamination event because these trace amounts likely originate from a larger source in the water system, he notes.

Most obviously, renewable sources of electricity from wind and solar sources can be used to electrolyze water — although the overall energy efficiency of this process is likely to be quite low.

That, combined with nitrogen isotope data, points to carbonaceous chondrites as the most likely common source of water.

After adjustment for factors likely to affect re-infection such as latrine use and drinking water source, 14 % of the children in the handwashing with soap groups (handwashing alone and handwashing plus nail clipping) were re-infected with parasites compared to 29 % of the children in the no handwashing groups (nail clipping only or neither intervention).

Further work by Cassini indicated that this water is coming from a buried ocean, which likely contains a source of chemical energy for microbes, if any ever evolved on that distant moon.

Under CSIRO's Deep Earth imaging Future Science Platform, the research organisation is bringing together the skills and capabilities to peer through the earth and determine with greater certainty where usable sources of water are likely to be.

Natural spring water used to be a reliable source of minerals, too, but it's way more likely you're drinking filtered water from a bottle or your fridge.

But, that doesn't mean your cat won't drink water, so if you have multiple fresh sources of water for them, they are more likely to drink an adequate amount.

Your new horse will investigate his space quickly, and he'll likely take less time to settle in if he's aware of his food and water sources.

Food and water dishes and litter boxes are likely sources of infections, if healthy cats share them with infected cats.

«We propose an investigation of the epidemiology of Pseudomonas otitis, and the data generated will be used to address two primary hypotheses: first, that the source of P. aeruginosa in canine otitis is the environment (most likely water and other fluids); and second, that the human companions of these dogs are the vehicles through which transmission / inoculation occurs.»

Standing water is a likely source of leptospirosis, which stems from water being contaminated with urine from rodents and the like.

If you live in a rural area in the developing world, in a home where water doesn't flow through pipes and out of a faucet, you likely spend hours every day gathering water from the nearest source (clean, if possible), which can be miles away or in the case of Tilwari, a village in northern India, down a steep slope — think the last stretch of your last hike up a mountain — off the main road.

One sixth of the world's population gets its water from the melting snow and ice tricking down from frozen sources which are likely to dry up in the years to come.

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Methane is an important part of the anthropogenic radiative forcing Methane emissions have a direct GHG effect, and they effect atmospheric chemistry and stratospheric water vapour which have additional impacts natural feedbacks involving methane likely to be important in future — via wetland response to temperature / rain change, atmospheric chemistry and, yes, arctic sources There are large stores of carbon in the Arctic, some stored as hydrates, some potentially convertible to CH4 by anaerobic resporation [from wikianswers: Without oxygen.

While Europeans will face increased flooding of river basins and rising sea levels in a warmer world, they'll also likely face water restrictions due to reduction in water availability from rivers and groundwater sources, in combination with increased demand for water.

«To the extent that people are thinking long - term about where's energy going to come from,» she said, «the Arctic is one of the places where it is highly likely that it will be a supply source — whether it's from Russian waters or Canadian waters or U.S. waters or Norwegian waters.

Although the exact source of contamination remains under investigation, the DDAC contamination most likely results from contact of the foodstuffs with disinfected equipment or from residues of DDAC in treated water used to wash the produce.

If you grow all of your own food without using chemicals (or smelted metals) and have a reliable source of water that does not depend on the weather, then global warming is not likely to affect your life style.

Cutting edge data centers of the future will require less of a physical human presence, and are likely to: â $ cents Rely on a VIL to optimize equipment management and provide for virtual remote control capable of instant changes, switches and adds â $ cents Achieve LEED certification for the physical building â $ cents Rely on more efficient water cooling that potentially takes advantage of an on - site tower to chill water for cooling the system (thus reducing energy consumption by using nature's natural cooling power to chill water) â $ cents Use fluid dynamics models to precisely design the interior of the building to maximize the efficiency of the HV / AC system for air - cooled computing systems â $ cents Tap into a mixed energy grid that relies on green energy sources such as solar, wind or hydroelectric (depending on geographic feasibility), along with a reliable city grid thus avoiding the need for the standard back - up Uninterruptible Power Supply (which will reduce equipment costs, minimize floor space used, and increase energy efficiency because systems that employ a UPS convert AC to DC and back, incurring substantial energy losses).

The simulator does not itself predict changes in water vapor or clouds, and so those feedback variables are a separate source of data with a higher uncertainty, but still likely to change in a manner that does not radically alter the results expected on the basis of current understanding.

Given that water is likely to be a major source of international and sub-national conflict in this century, it would be a good topic for some bright young legal writer.