Not exact matches
«They do have sanitary sewers that are not combined, but when you look at the flow on a regular day, the
number of gallons that go through a pump station and then compare it to what happens after a rain storm, they have eight times the
water going through,» Mahoney said.
Where the
numbers really pile up is in the operation
of Kennedy Space Center, which includes pumping 300,000
gallons of water to protect the shuttle from launch vibrations, moving the rockets, and keeping hundreds
of tons
of liquid oxygen and hydrogen cool.
75 Trillion
Number of gallons by which the earth's underground stores
of water are depleted every year.
Our (three
gallon each) jugs stay cold longer than the
number of days it takes for us to consume the
water.
A
gallon of water a day is a good
number to aim for.
With many more than 11 farms, and the 11th largest using 500 million, even if the ten larger were much more efficient and only used the 500 million
number (not likely, but I do not have access to the exact amounts), then the top 11 farms would use 5.5 billion
gallons of water annually.
Flex Ethanol technology has one
of the lowest net
water use
numbers, according to Bolsen, compared to two to three
gallons of water per
gallon of gasoline produced, and two to four
gallons of water per
gallon of corn ethanol.