Sentences with phrase «made water reservoirs»

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).

Not exact matches

6I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.

You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool.

The water reservoir is removable, making it easy to refill whenever you need to, and on the K575, you can choose from several different nightlight colors to illuminate your kitchen at night.

water reservoir will make you refill the cup often.

water reservoir in this machine which helps you make 8 + cups of coffee in a single fill.

Water is supplied to the target - making machine through reservoir tanks or a permanent system of pipes.

It also has a wide opening, which will make easy to open refill its reservoir with water without having to spill some on the floor.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

The hydroponics system is made to be easy to maintain, with a 15 - gallon reservoir, air pump, and 185 GPH water pump.

The carafe has measuring lines to make filling the reservoir with the right amount of water a breeze.

You can brew into the included glass carafe to make up to four shots from the four - cup water reservoir.

The meteorite is made of volcanic rock, and the presence of water in it suggests that crustal rocks on Mars interacted with surface water that was delivered by volcanic activity, near - surface reservoirs or by impacting comets, Agee says.

Each bucket is its own «reservoir,» which can make full water replacements a hassle, but it's still easier than making your own setup from scratch.

The water reservoir is also removable, making it easy to clean and to fill up.

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

Extreme drought in the Colorado River Basin last summer forced the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which manages river flows in the Western U.S., to make a historic announcement: For the 2014 water year (October 2013 through September 2014), the agency will reduce releases of water from Lake Powell — the gargantuan reservoir on the Colorado River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - feet.

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.»

In the dry season, surface water reservoirs are at the same level as the aquifer that feeds them: altitude measurements of the surface water then made possible direct observations of the height of the groundwater.

The device is a unique example of microfluidics technology, sometimes called a lab - on - a-chip, that pushes water around in microscopic tubes and reservoirs made from the same cellophanelike plastic as soft contact lenses.

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.

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.

Vietnamese growers — some of whom are encountering falling water levels as a result of unsustainable groundwater use — are making reservoirs to collect rainwater for irrigating the cacao trees.

The drought, they found, will lead this year to 32 percent more acres of land laid fallow, an increase in groundwater pumping to make up for the lack of water in rivers and reservoirs, and total job losses of 18,600.

The presence of liquid water on the surface is what makes our «blue planet» habitable, and scientists have long been trying to figure out just how much water may be cycling between Earth's surface and interior reservoirs through plate tectonics.

It makes land areas flood - prone, causes soil salinisation, results in the deterioration of the quality of water, silting of rivers, streams and reservoirs.

Creatine just burst up with fire and absorbs all the water reservoirs from your body and makes you dehydrate.

This is one of the highest - end water reservoirs on the market and makes all the difference on an extended backpacking trip.

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.

With the ability to hold two liters of water in the included reservoir, this bag is also insulated to make sure that your water won't freeze while you're on the slopes.

Man made reservoir to collect rain water and water from the mountain that is filtered for showering and grey water to ensure the beautiful landscapes are watered - a way to conserve water during the dry seasons

The result: an elaborate series of 21 man - made wetlands and reservoirs that allows the county to collect 10 million gallons of wastewater a day and eventually convert it to drinking water...

Poor monsoon rains have diminished the water available for agriculture and groundwater reservoir replenishment in South Asia, as well as making it [continue reading...]

The cladding is going to be fiber cement clapboards coated on all 6 sides to reduce water absorption (make the «reservoir cladding» less of a «reservoir»).

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...

Waste water from the coal plant can be used to fill up the EGS reservoir and then as make - up water for the water lost to the rock as the geothermal project is operated.

Making use of off - peak energy prices to pump water to an upper reservoir at Highbury Quarry, water will flow back down through turbines to generate power when prices are high.

They had evaluated all available data on sea level rise and also made allowance for water held in storage by all reservoirs built since 1900.

So, to make the two cases equivalent you should, in the water vapour case, also remove the liquid water reservoir which is the cause of the water vapour restoration.

Physicist Miklos Zagoni says, «It is nonsense to think that a system «waits» for our CO2 - emissions to elevate its temperature if otherwise the energetic conditions make possible to rise and the necessary resort (a practically infinite reservoir of greenhouse gases in the form of water vapor in the oceans) is at its hands.»

If the state's reservoirs are the last bastion buffering climatic variaibility, that makes Friday's claim that the reservoirs are too low to have any water to spare even more alarming.

By any measure, the current California drought is severe, to the degree that Governor Brown made an emergency drought declaration almost a year ago, state and federal water agencies have been forced to greatly cut back deliveries of water to cities and farms from dangerously depleted rivers and reservoirs, and local utilities are asking customers for a mix of voluntary and sometimes mandatory water - use reductions.

Make the land more robust to drought, and you have less of a tyranny of drought fears among operators of water reservoirs.

In the case of El Hierro, where the storage solution is a water reservoir purpose - excavated for the system, the easiest way to increase the duration of the storage would be to make the grid smarter, so that electricity is mostly consumed when wind is blowing.

1) Negatively: Clouds and cloud formation, mostly 2) Positively: Shallow waters caused naturally or by human activities such as putting up dams in rivers and making shallow pools & reservoirs for irrigation and water consumption.

In that third scenario, - how about we call it «Power Scramble» — no amount of holding back on water releases can make up for evaporative water losses from reservoirs and continued consumptive water withdrawals.

There is still a long way to go in refilling the state's reservoirs (not to mention groundwater), although Lake Oroville made headlines last week as news outlets reported quickly rising water levels.

Socio - economic benefits accrued through improved decision - making, e.g., better QPF can help reservoir operators balance flood control against competing needs for water resources.

Say look at nails coming of a nail making machine and daily readings for a drinking water reservoir.

You could adapt a freestanding tank to fill with water that then cascades out through holes made in the side, to be recycled by a reservoir that is sunk out of sight behind.