Sentences with phrase «of billions of gallons of water»

Mr. Reiss and Mr. Goldstein decry the six Hudson River power plants with antiquated cooling systems that withdraw tens of billions of gallons of water directly from the river every day, thereby destroying billions of fish, fish eggs and larvae each year.

Federal officials believe the subsidy program could successfully prod ranchers to put hundreds of billions of gallons of water back into the river and help relieve the shortages plaguing states downstream.

Not exact matches

FORT WORTH, Texas — Some of the largest brewers in the U.S. are trying to reduce their water - to - beer ratio as drought and wildfire threaten the watersheds where they draw billions of gallons every year.

In 2020, the planet's oil wells will produce nearly 12.7 billion gallons a day of water.

The Denver suburb of Aurora made a $ 9.5 million, five - year deal last summer to provide the oil company Anadarko 2.4 billion gallons of excess treated sewer water.

American businesses flush more than a billion gallons of fresh water down the toilet every working day and throw out 15 million plastic toner cartridges every year.

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.

-- Chris Spain, president and CEO of smart water management provider HydroPoint, which saved customers more than 15 billion gallons of water and $ 137 million in expenses in 2015.

Seventy thousand people — enough to fill a small city — have been asked to evacuate areas that could be flooded by the nearly 11 billion gallons of water the dam holds back.

Through diverting 54, 000,000 pounds of cloth, USAgain along with its consumers kept 378, 000,000 lbs of carbon dioxide away from getting into the atmosphere, preserved above 75.6 billion gallons of water, combined with 308,571 cubic lawns of dump room.

On August 4, 2014, the catastrophic failure of a mining company's dam in British Columbia, Canada, released over 2.5 billion gallons of contaminated water...

• 105 billion gallons of water will be wasted on producing turkey meat that people will never eat — that's enough to supply New York City for more than 100 days.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

An Investigative Post analysis of state data shows the Niagara Falls sewer system has spewed more than a half - billion gallons of raw sewage mixed with storm water into the Lower Niagara River since May 2016.

Scenic Hudson has worked for decades to stop the massive environmental damage to the Hudson River caused by the plant's withdrawal of billions of gallons a day of cooling water.

The state also wants Indian Point to install cooling towers that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to mitigate harm to wildlife when the plant sucks in billions of gallons of Hudson River water to cool its turbines.

Over a billion gallons of water a day pass through an ultraviolet disinfection facility in Westchester County, the world's largest.

Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reactors.

Satellite control of company and municipal irrigation systems, based on custom weather data, saves billions of gallons of water nationwide

Super low - flow appliances, mandated for 2016, will save 10 billion gallons of water in the first year alone

That could require up to 120 billion additional gallons of Ogallala water annually, according to a report by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

«These new standards will save more than 10 billion gallons of water in the first year, and over time, the water savings will be even greater,» said Energy Commissioner Andrew McAllister.

Matuska estimates that on the whole, California water users in the area draw more than 2 billion gallons of groundwater from the Colorado River each year, which, through his strict accounting, is then properly factored into the state's larger water math.

Over the past 20 years, the district has modernized its water reclamation system, which now returns 70 billion gallons of treated wastewater annually to Lake Mead, the source of 90 percent of Las Vegas's water.

Denver and other eastern Colorado cities already take 154 billion gallons of water across the Continental Divide from western Colorado each year.

By the Water Authority's own demand projections, that growth will translate into taking at least 240 billion gallons of water each year, 74 percent more than Las Vegas demands tWater Authority's own demand projections, that growth will translate into taking at least 240 billion gallons of water each year, 74 percent more than Las Vegas demands twater each year, 74 percent more than Las Vegas demands today.

Data centers employ some 80 billion gallons of water for cooling annually, according to Intel.

I've been mindful of the amount of water I use when making a pot of coffee ever since learning that one - third of the tap water used for drinking in North America is actually used to brew our daily cups of joe — and that if each of us avoided wasting just one cupful of coffee a day, we could save enough water over the course of a year to provide two gallons to every one of the more than 1.1 billion people who don't have access to freshwater at all.

During the disinfection process, water will pass through the 56 UV units, each of which contains 144 low - pressure, high - output ultraviolet lamps that produce 40 millijoules per square centimeter of light that together can treat an average of 1.3 billion gallons (4.9 billion liters) of water daily (pdf).

Based on the city's specifications (pdf), the facility will use no more than 6.3 megawatts of power when the water is at the maximum flow of 2.4 billion gallons per day.

Oil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surface.

Some 13,000 desalinization plants capable of producing 52.3 million cubic meters (13.8 billion gallons) of potable water a day are currently in operation, according to the International Desalination Association (IDA).

Oil drilling produced more than 130 billion gallons of water last year.

The oceans contain 252 billion billion gallons of water, and the energy imbalance caused by climate change is so huge that it affects this vast system.

Its plan calls for stopping the diversion of water by filling in more than 500 miles of canals and levees, creating new surface water reservoirs, and drilling more than 300 wells to store billions of gallons of fresh water in an underground aquifer.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

This deep water tunnel — a holding tank on steroids — comprises two legs roughly 300 feet (90 meters) belowground that can hold nearly 500 million gallons (1.9 billion liters) of sewage and storm water during a downpour.

Evaporation from overwatered lawns cost the city of Los Angeles 70 billion gallons of wasted water a year.

Energy companies used nearly 250 billion gallons of water to extract unconventional shale gas and oil from hydraulically fractured wells in the United States between 2005 and 2014, a new Duke University study finds.

A reduction of irrigation just 1 inch / acre / year in North Texas High Plains corn acreage would result in a total water savings of nearly 13 billion gallons, according to the nomination.

If each of these restaurants switched to compressed air for pre-cleaning plates and could save even just 250 gallons per day that would equal over 5 billion gallons of water per year.

«If all the restaurants in California were to do this, it could save between 5 and 10 billion gallons of water a year,» Cox told CBS.

It sucks up around 1,500 gallons of water for just one pair of jeans, and every year, there are over 2 billion pairs of jeans produced globally — and when denim is rinsed, it leaves several tons of nasty, toxic blue dye that goes right back into our water ways.

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

In 2013, Americans consumed a total of 10.1 billion gallons of bottled water, a jump of 4.7 % over 2012.

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.

My previously mentioned idea of compost toileting, if applied to a community of 1 million people like Las Vegas would save 5.84 billion gallons of water.

People waste billions of gallons of water a year watering their lawns, and the landfills are bursting at the seams.

500 million gallons per year is a tiny fraction of Californian water use (something like 80 billion cubic metres per year; 500 million gallons is about 2 million cubic metres).