Sentences with phrase «of gallons of water»

Millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and up to 300 tons of chemicals are then pumped into the well at high pressure to create breaks in the rock and release the gas.

Hundreds or thousands of gallons of water spraying a room for hours causes major damage.

It will turn over a large chunk of federal land to private energy companies, and it may involve withdrawing billions of gallons of water from sensitive desert habitat.

A leaky toilet can also waste hundreds of gallons of water a week.

It holds just shy of a gallon of water and is great for large households or someone who just really likes to drink water a lot.

The savings in water are obvious, but we are apt to forget the electricity that it takes to pump the hundreds of gallons of water yearly that our household will now conserve.

In addition to generating verified carbon offset credits, these practices also resulted in reduced energy consumption and the reduced use of millions of gallons of water, a critical resource in both regions.

Businesses and municipalities waste billions of gallons of water each year in poorly timed lawn irrigation.

Drumlin Farm's bathrooms use low - flow and no flow water fixtures, helping save thousands of gallons of water per year.

The historic storm dumped trillions of gallons of water on Texas last summer, destroying homes and disrupting thousands of human and animal lives.

«We're hoping that this campaign will engage our fans in an innovative and fun way and, at the same time, potentially save thousands of gallons of water on our laundry.»

They'll love the kids» club, the pools, and «Flowrider» — an incredible surf simulator which pumps thousands of gallons of water into a two - lane wave pool.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves using millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to break up organic - rich shale to release natural gas resources.

Why doesn't Obama take the politicians to task — the ones who are taking mega bucks from the Chinese to take thousands of gallons of water from aquifers that feed the Great Lakes?

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a request to pull millions of gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan to serve a new Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing plant, helping the Taiwanese electronics giant clear a major regulatory hurdle.

The Water Factor refers to the number of gallons of water used per cycle, per cubic foot.

From this calculation, Hill was able to determine the number of gallons of water required to burn one 60 - watt incandescent light bulb for 12 hours a day, over the course of one year.

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.

Sacramento recently passed a pretty extensive Sustainability Master Plan, and many locals are wondering how allowing a bottled water company to come in and use millions of gallons of water for bottled water fits into that plan.

He's amassed a year's worth of canned and dry food, dozens of gallons of water, hundreds of water purification tablets, and a small cache of weapons in a old U-Haul truck outside his western Oregon home in preparation for «doomsday,» the end - times scenario based upon the ancient Mayan calendar hitting a symbolic turning point this month.

Where else can you pick out a scented candle that will cost you 75 cents after rebate while listening to a video across the aisle telling you that you will save thousands of gallons of water over the lifetime of the toilet.

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

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.

«The volcano will create millions of gallons of water beneath the ice — many lakes full,» says Wiens.

The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.

My question is, how much of that gallon of water should i drink a day to reap the ACV benefits?

Seeing this waterfall up close and personal promises to be an utterly breathless experience: the refreshing spray, the awe - inspiring views, the sound of hundreds of gallons of water plunging into the earth — Gullfoss is a spectacular sight.

Here, on June 17, a helicopter releases hundreds of gallons of water onto the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska.

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.

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.

Their efforts have paid off in laws, regulations, and settlements that siphon off hundred of billions of gallons of water annually for environmental causes and wildlife refuges.

Each bottle can wash dozens of cars to near - show - room shine and will thus save thousands of gallons of water while keeping the toxic grime from your car out of lakes and rivers.

The largest of the models, the 1080XL, has a canopy measuring 20 meters by 20 meters and is said to be capable of producing a peak of 45kW while also collecting and filtering hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per year, depending on local rainfall amounts.

Fracturing a natural gas well requires millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to release gas from the shale formation thousands of feet below the earth's surface.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a request to pull millions of gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan to serve a new Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing plant, helping the Taiwanese electronics giant clear a major regulatory hurdle.

The historic storm dumped trillions of gallons of water on Texas last summer, destroying homes and disrupting thousands of human and animal lives.

It holds just shy of a gallon of water, which means fewer refills and less waiting.

«Over the course of the year, we're keeping millions of gallons of water out of the sewer system,» Gwen Schantz, one of the founders and chief operating officer of the Brooklyn Grange, told TreeHugger.

Thick, acrid smoke filled the skies over the New York State Thruway Authority Maintenance complex as firefighters from Larchmont, New Rochelle and ultimately Harrison dumped thousands of gallons of water in an effort to bring the bring the massive

We buy several tons at a time, and each pound takes hundreds of gallons of water to produce,» he says.

When I walked down the main strip and saw these massive hotels putting on these large water show displays, which involved shooting hundreds if not thousands of gallons of water into the air, I was not only surprised but also very turned off.

While a roof's drainage system diverts thousands of gallons of water from a home's exterior and foundation walls, it's important to keep the process moving in order to avoid water damage.

On Sunday, firefighters with the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center reported that the fire appeared to be out after they poured thousands of gallons of water and foam down the shaft, according to a release on the Fermilab Web site.