Sentences with phrase «of electricity and water»

The most common cause of serious electrical accidents usually involves the deadly combination of electricity and water.
One of the pillars of the DSEM, and a crucial factor in transforming Dubai's energy market, was the review of the electricity and water tariff structure.
In fact, if green retrofits were undertaken for South Africa's three million existing low - cost houses, the reduced consumption of electricity and water would save R3 billion each year and 3.45 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.
12: Vulnerability of the electricity and water sectors to climate change in the Midwest.
Nice villa with specification 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, living room and dining room is closed, there is a place to relax on the patio and gazebo, kitchen and kitchen sets, garden, swimming pool unique, full furnish, 1,200 watts of electricity and water well drilling.
Offered fully furnished this villa have a 16,500 watts of electricity and water well drilling and have a very nice garden and also a large swimming pool with 15 x 4 meter size, 2 large fish pond, roof terrace to enjoy the view and the sunset also the sunrise.
Nice villa with specification 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, living room & dining room closed, kitchen and kitchen sets, full furnish, garden, pool size 7 x 3 mtr, 2 gazebos, 2 floors, balcony, carport for 1 car, 5,500 watts of electricity and water well drilling.
Cloth diapers use up large amounts of electricity and water for washing and drying.
The John Mahama - led NDC Government has, through the PURC, presented the long - suffering people of Ghana with yet another wicked and insensitive present just when Ghanaians are bracing themselves for probably the worst Christmas in a generation: a more than 60 % increase in the price of electricity and water.
We wish to issue a responsible and necessary caution that we would, on behalf of the suffering masses of Ghana, take any legitimate action possible to stop these evil rates of increase in the cost of electricity and water from being visited on the people and businesses in Ghana.
Meanwhile Health Minister, Alex Segbefia, says cost of electricity and water at all health facilities would be paid.
Labour says it backs government's position for a downward review of utility tariffs, proposing that the cost of electricity and water should be slashed by at least 20 %.
«The university is not able to pay the bills, and this has resulted in the frequent disruption of electricity and water supply by the two service providers,» the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Kwadwo Adinkrah - Appiah, stated at the second matriculation ceremony of the university in Sunyani on Friday.
The Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) last December announced hikes in tariffs of electricity and water by 59.2 % and 67.2 %, respectively.
But, you do not have to bathe with a toaster for the combination of electricity and water to be dangerous.
The lack of electricity and water, the drive - by shootings, the explosions that more than rattled our windows — they shook our souls.
(l - r) HE Alexander Novak, Russia's Minister of Energy; HE Issam A. Almarzooq, Kuwait's Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water; and HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, OPEC Secretary General
«We can actually put computation in the infrastructure of the city so that we can make the city not only greener but more efficient,» he says, referencing innovations that could prevent the waste of electricity and water from cracks in building architecture.

Not exact matches

In a personal blog post announcing his plans, Camp spoke of recent travels to Kenya, where he connected with people living without access to basic services like clean water, food and electricity.
The island itself needed a lot of work, with no electricity, no water and no roads.
It can clean more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour and uses no more electricity than a water boiler, according to Roosegaarde.
«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.
In the case of water and electricity, we pay for costs incurred before we receive them.
While the global water industry is diversified and, in terms of committed capital, ranks on par with the oil, gas and electricity industries, it's attracted little private investment.
Bibra Lake - based ZBB Energy Corporation will receive $ 3.1 million over two years in project funding from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies program, the company has announced.
At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.
In the Slingshot's current form (soon to be updated in a beta stage), it can deliver around 800 litres of clean drinking water daily — enough for about 300 people — and uses as much electricity in an hour as a basic hair dryer.
Instead of requiring a large volume of water, Xeros employs small polymer beads to clean clothes and linens, minimizing water, detergent and electricity use.
Scott started putting his work ethic to good use helping doctors in Liberia, the polar opposite of New York City, where there was no running water, no electricity and no sewer system.
The angry protestors are gathered outside of the office of Nevada's Public Utilities Commission, the regulatory body that sets rules for the state's electricity, gas, and water utilities.
The device allows business owners to modify their behavior and save on costs of everything from water and electricity to natural gas and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.
The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.
Rajiv Shah of the Rockefeller Foundation says bringing electricity and clean water to parts of Asia quicker can be done by combining philanthropic efforts.
The work was low margin, but the profits from it augmented cash flow and covered a significant portion of the plant's overhead (electricity, water, taxes, etc.).
For the last 300 years, the assumption of Europe and North America was that you were going to have a mixed economy, with governments investing in infrastructure, roads and other transportation, communications, water and sewer systems, gas and electricity.
So, over the short - term, their net gain would be $ 540 - $ 95 (minus the cost of the water and electricity to run the machines).
«Many of my friends here rent furnished apartments or vacation homes at prices as low as $ 300 a month for a one - bedroom furnished apartment with water, electricity, and Wi - Fi is included,» says Bonnie.
There are significant parallels between water and electricity infrastructure in the 20th century and high bandwidth internet connectivity in the 21st century, with both exhibiting the type of network externality problems that lead to under - investment by the private sector.
Payment banks are permitted to undertake such basic transactions as remittances and payment of bills for service providers like telecom companies, day - to - day groceries or utilities like water and electricity.
In 2010, the United States used 683 trillion cubic meters of natural gas in anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehicles.
As of Thursday morning, 18 of Brevard's 82 public schools were still without electricity and 19 schools were without water.
If your machines are built properly, there won't be a huge amount of repairs, and your expenses are pretty low (water, electricity, soap, and... that's about it)!
To improve your chances of getting approved, you may want to bring some documents with you, including personal references, photo ID or driver's license, and utility bills such as electricity, water, gas, or other bills.
About $ 500 of those payments goes to Harbour, and the rest goes to the electricity company and the water company.
Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.
When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.
Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, a category four storm, tore through Puerto Rico forging a path of devastation and destruction, many of the island's citizens still do not have access to food, water, medicine, or electricity.
What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?
Electricity is on for four hours a day, water in many areas of Gaza is undrinkable and there have been reports of Hamas fighters being armed for further conflict.
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