Sentences with phrase «millions of gallons of water by»

South Bend, Ind., avoided $ 120 million in upgrades and conserved millions of gallons of water by becoming one of the first cities on the globe to use cloud computing to manage its water systems.

Not exact matches

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

The study, conducted by Eli Lilly's (lly) Elanco Animal Health division at the request of the National Chicken Council, said that if one - third of U.S. broilers switched to slower growing breeds, that would mean 33.5 billion pounds more feed, 7.6 million acres / year more land, 28.5 billion pounds of manure, and 5.1 billion additional gallons of water.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

In the last year, we reduced our water use by literally millions of gallons in our Florida facility alone.»

DuPont Dordrecht also installed water purification technologies that allowed reuse of water, reduced consumption of purchased water, and eliminated water discharge into the Merwede River by 265,000 m3 (70 million US gallons).

They set a goal to reduce plant water usage by 1 million gallons, and by installing a reverse osmosis system, they achieved a savings of 1,264,323 gallons in 2014 and expect to achieve similar savings in subsequent years.

The update, which is the biggest renovation the 18 - hole golf course has seen in the last 35 to 40 years, is going to improve the club's turf and expand its water detention capacity by about 5 million of gallons of water, according to officials.

In 2015, the former CEO of Nestle Tim Brown admitted that Nestle wastes 30 % of the 700 million gallons of water per year Nestle takes out of California groundwater — then declared attempts by Nestle to reduce that water waste by 12 %.

Not only that, several other water projects which were expected to add a total of 25.4 million gallons of water per day to the national stock which were expected to be completed by end of 2016, are as follows:

A total of 11.8 million gallons of water per day was added to the national stock by the Mahama administration through the following projects:

On paper, a plan by the Kingston Water Department to sell almost 1.8 million gallons of water a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make sWater Department to sell almost 1.8 million gallons of water a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make swater a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make sense.

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

In addition to saving 42 million gallons of water over the course of the year, the school had $ 42,000 more in its pocket by the end of the experiment — which it plans to spend on more locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, and organic pastured beef.

(2) $ 54,243,826 for the World Trade Center Hub project, which was inundated by approximately 125 million gallons of tidal water.

252 million divided by 660 quadrillion is one gallon of oil for every 2.6 billion gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Georgia Aquarium opened, the world's largest with more than ten million gallons of water, to the public in November 2005 and had welcomed its 10 millionth guest by 2009.

And they were told by the owner that they use over 500 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER ANNUALLY!!!!

Funes notes that it took Weeki Wachee 40 million years to form, but in just the last 40 years, its flow has decreased by more than 10 million gallons of water a day.

These gardens could absorb more than 5.7 million gallons of water every year, not to mention the millions of gallons already being absorbed by the existing parks.

Boston Water and Sewer Commission has relayed or relined over 300 miles of aging pipes, reducing the amount of water being lost through system leaks by 50 million gallons perWater and Sewer Commission has relayed or relined over 300 miles of aging pipes, reducing the amount of water being lost through system leaks by 50 million gallons perwater being lost through system leaks by 50 million gallons per day.

The plan by Nestle Waters North America would allow for the construction of a new bottling facility (to be opened by January 2010 in South Sacramento) plus an estimated usage of 30 million gallons of city water each year.

Biodegradable corn plastic cups and seed paper sleeves were available and the campaign's signage was read by all waiting in line, stating: Switching from a disposable to a reusable mug can save 9 million trees a year, 5.7 billion gallons of water and eliminate 363 million pounds of solid waste from landfill.

The company estimates that in 2007 alone, its 15,000 subscribers saved more than 6.7 billion gallons of water, reducing their costs by $ 60 million.

«By extending the smart home into the yard, we've helped people conserve more than 500 million gallons of water since our launch in 2012.

By comparison, «renewable» and «sustainable» corn - based ethanol requires 2,510 to 29,100 gallons per million Btu of usable energy — and biodiesel from soybeans consumes an astounding and unsustainable 14,000 to 75,000 gallons of water per million Btu!

The 2012 - 13 Annual Sustainability Report notes a more than 50 percent increase in renewable energy production over the prior year, a decrease water usage by 4 million gallons, and, in Dining Services, 44 percent of produce sourced locally and 39 percent of seafood purchases sustainable.

The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks at a variety of ways fracking could have an effect on local drinking water: withdrawing millions of gallons of water needed to frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the water at the well, injecting that fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two miles beneath the surface, handling the contaminated water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing of that water.

So you would have to bring millions of gallons of water in by tanker, and employ thousands of people to wash the panels.

Fracking, in which millions of gallons of chemically treated water and sand are forced underground to break shale rock and free trapped gas, has lowered energy prices, created jobs, and enhanced national security, according to a task force formed by President Barack Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

Other harms are certainties, like the rendering of millions of gallons of potentially potable water undrinkable by toxifying the water and injecting it into the ground.

The agency noted that 5 million gallons of water is equivalent to the water used by approximately 50,000 people for one day.

LA just completed a project at the LA Reservoir to save 300 million gallons of water by deploying shade balls on its surface, saving our city over $ 250 million dollars while keeping our water clean & safe.

Caroma expects that their system will save the city millions of gallons of water each year just by replacing common urinals with their H2Zero waterless urinals.

In addition, the building will save more than 1 million gallons of water a year by installing new, highly efficient systems and an innovative draining and filtering system.

By reducing evaporation, these shade balls will conserve 300 million gallons of water each year, instead of just evaporating into the sky.