Sentences with phrase «more water capacity»

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These include better grade control measures, an increased mining fleet, more fresh rock inventory, an increased pumping capacity, better water management systems and an increased focus on training,

Although the Chief Justice acknowledged that this argument had some merit, the more determinative factor — and the key difference between the statutory immunity provisions relied upon by the ERCB and Alberta Environment — was that the immunity clause with respect to the former explicitly contemplated the regulator as an entity («the Board or a member of the Board...») whereas the immunity provisions under the Water Act and the EPEA did not (referring only to «persons» in various capacities; see paras 62 — 71).

Kidman is increasing the carrying capacity of its stations, primarily by bringing more water to the herds.

Unlike the existing reverse - osmosis membranes responsible for more than half of the world's current water desalination capacity, the new membrane process dehydrates ions as they pass through the membrane channels and removes only select ions, rather than indiscriminately removing all ions.

The Water Authority's haul from the sale of federal lands eventually came to almost $ 300 million and helped bolster financing for the pipelines, tunnels, pumps and more that Las Vegas eventually built to double its capacity to move water out of the Colorado RWater Authority's haul from the sale of federal lands eventually came to almost $ 300 million and helped bolster financing for the pipelines, tunnels, pumps and more that Las Vegas eventually built to double its capacity to move water out of the Colorado Rwater out of the Colorado River.

More than a million people get their drinking water from the reservoir, but the drought shriveled it to less than 30 percent of its capacity.

But 30 dams on the Guadalquivir, with a total capacity of more than 4 cubic kilometres of water, plus local irrigation schemes, have caused water tables in the wetland to fall by up to 50 centimetres a year.

What's more, aquifers lose no water through evaporation, do not flood ecosystems, and in California they have capacity for between 17 and 26 times as much water as all of the state's reservoirs combined.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

This is because not only does the higher water - holding capacity lead to increased rainfall, but climate change makes the atmosphere more favourable to low - pressure systems bringing rain from the Atlantic across southern England.»

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

For an exo... ▽ More In the outer regions of the habitable zone, the risk of transitioning into a globally frozen «snowball» state poses a threat to the habitability of planets with the capacity to host water - based life.

The major rivers of Montana export more than 40 million acre - feet of water / yr (4.9 x1010 m3 / yr) 2 — more than twice the capacity of Flathead Lake — with the majority, approximately 60 %, generated in the Clark Fork and Kootenai river basins west of the Continental Divide.

Usually, if you don't alternate between high and low intake, your body lowers the capacity to burn fat and keeps more water, which gives you a bloated appearance.

More specifically, a dehydrated athlete with 2.5 % loss of body weight in the form of water can experience up to 45 % loss in capacity to perform high - intensity exercise.

How much water you use depends on how creamy you want your almond milk, and the capacity of your blender (you can always add more water to the milk after straining if your blender is small).

Its larger capacity is more suitable for use at home with large families, travel, outdoor activities or during unexpected emergencies (or for people with high water usage).

When they drink more water, youngsters devour less calories from sugar sweetened refreshments, remain hydrated, and increase their vitality levels and capacity to focus.

With its 70 oz fluid capacity, it can hold more water compared to other brands.

With a capacity of over 3,300 passengers, the cruise liner is equipped with onboard facilities, such as six waterslide parks, rock climbing wall, a 35 - meter zip - line that sways above the open waters and more.

On some Australian liveaboards there will be a member of staff in the water who acts more in a safety capacity than as a guide or leader for the dive.

Now the Water capacity is coming back with a lot more fun with up - to - date season 2.

«Note: LOTI provides a more realistic representation of the global mean trends than dTs below; it slightly underestimates warming or cooling trends, since the much larger heat capacity of water compared to air causes a slower and diminished reaction to changes.»

Conservationists say that adding to the water capacity of the Las Vegas area, which already has 1.8 million residents, could just foster more growth in a region that, especially in a warming world, is the last place to consider expanding human settlements.

The charcoal in soil also imparts properties to the soil which makes it a better growing medium for plants; better water holding capacity, better nutrient holding capacity, better habitat for benficial soil microorganisms, better tilth and friability of the soil, and better cation ion exchange capacity (CEC), all to make water and plant nutrients more available for growing plants.

Examples include greater likelihood of injury, disease, and death due to more intense heat waves and fires; increased likelihood of under - nutrition resulting from diminished food production in poor regions; risks from lost work capacity and reduced labor productivity in vulnerable populations; and increased risks from food - and water - borne diseases.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

As you lose carbonate ion (as the ocean is acidified), the water's capacity to absorb more CO2 decreases.

Since salt water has a higher specific heat capacity than land, ocean temperatures increase and decrease more slowly than land temperatures.

Such events tend to be more regional and less likely to cover as large an area as those that occur in spring, in part because soil water storage capacity is typically much greater during the summer.

The more soil organic matter (SOM), the greater the water holding capacity.

Accordingly, changes in temperature and the water holding capacity of the atmosphere are more robust than changes that depend on winds in any way.

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In a warming climate, higher ocean temperatures can power more intense storm events and the warmer atmosphere has the capacity to store more water, so rainstorms are more intense.

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...

And since 70 % of the planet is covered by clear blue water, anything that reduces the oceans» capacity to soak up and sequester carbon could only make climate change more certain and more swift.

Hydropower capacity has increased by slightly more than 1 % over the past decade, although actual hydropower generation can vary noticeably by season depending on water supply conditions.

• Climate priorities: Allen did not respond to requests for comment, but he has said that he wants to build more dams as a way to increase water capacity.

The 25 water pumps now installed in Miami Beach (55 more to go) have enough capacity to manage a storm that brings 7.5 inches of rain within 24 hours, but they would be overwhelmed by anything more.

If you go down, say, to a depth of a mere 1000 meters, the diffusion of this transferred heat, over a volume of water with a heat capacity that now is some 400 times larger than the entire atmosphere, would make it 400 times more undetectable, we suppose.

More than half of the 7,100 megawatts of offshore capacity belongs to the United Kingdom, which installed 730 megawatts in its waters in 2013.

As carbon dioxide is acidic, the surface waters of the oceans could become more acidic than ever before in five million years, reducing the capacity of shell - forming species to form shells and affecting the marine food chain.

They tend to have more limited adaptive capacities, and are more dependent on climate - sensitive resources such as local water and food supplies.»

In wetter regions, more intense seasonal droughts can be managed by current water - supply systems and by adaptation; for example, demand can be reduced by using water more efficiently, or supply can be increased by increasing the storage capacity in reservoirs.

Storing more water in reservoirs and refilling them earlier can help salmon at the expense of a small decline in hydropower capacity.11

This ocean acidification makes water more corrosive, reducing the capacity of marine organisms with shells or skeletons made of calcium carbonate (such as corals, krill, oysters, clams, and crabs) to survive, grow, and reproduce, which in turn will affect the marine food chain.7

The more water that flows out of the mountains earlier, the more likely that reservoir capacity may not meet competing demands for hydropower and stream flow to support salmon.11 Lower water levels and warmer water temperatures in summer degrade stream habitat for salmon in the Northwest.

Air with water vapour has a greater heat capacity than air without, and hence loses heat more slowly.

My guess would be that the heat capacity of the air would dominate (surely the volume of air in a forest is more than 1000x the volume of the leaves), in which case the cooling effect would still be an order of magnitude greater than the buoyancy of water vapor effect (but no more than 13X).

Globally, solar water heaters have the capacity to produce as much energy as more than 140 nukes.