Sentences with phrase «of gallons of water by»

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.

Not exact matches

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

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.

Or in an emergency, you can use it to treat water by using 16 drops of regular household liquid bleach per gallon of water.

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.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

I got a five gallon bucket of water, and started by lighting a match and throwing it in.

If you don't have access to sea water, replicate the 3.5 % salinity by adding four ounces of kosher salt (about 1/3 cup) to one gallon of filtered or bottled water.

By 2020, the region - and production - weighted national average water use of the U.S. swine herd will be reduced 5 percent from a 2014 baseline of 18.66 gallons / lb.

In the last year, we reduced our water use by literally millions of gallons in our Florida facility alone.»

DuPont Dordrecht also installed water purification technologies that allowed reuse of water, reduced consumption of purchased water, and eliminated water discharge into the Merwede River by 265,000 m3 (70 million US gallons).

Company predicts annual water savings of over 275,000 gallons and $ 260,000 in labor savings, just by updating their tank cleaning process to include Gamajet rotary impingement devices.

Ground applications should be made by mixing 12.5 fluid ounces of product in 100 gallons of water per acre.

They set a goal to reduce plant water usage by 1 million gallons, and by installing a reverse osmosis system, they achieved a savings of 1,264,323 gallons in 2014 and expect to achieve similar savings in subsequent years.

The program could save over 3,400 gallons of water if every Pacifics home game is attended by at least 500 fans, half the capacity of Albert Park.

Reducing the length of your shower by just one minute could save you up to 1,825 gallons ** of water each year.

By reducing that to 5 minutes, you can reduce the amount of water you use by nearly one - third, or roughly 10 gallons per daBy reducing that to 5 minutes, you can reduce the amount of water you use by nearly one - third, or roughly 10 gallons per daby nearly one - third, or roughly 10 gallons per day.

The update, which is the biggest renovation the 18 - hole golf course has seen in the last 35 to 40 years, is going to improve the club's turf and expand its water detention capacity by about 5 million of gallons of water, according to officials.

In 2015, the former CEO of Nestle Tim Brown admitted that Nestle wastes 30 % of the 700 million gallons of water per year Nestle takes out of California groundwater — then declared attempts by Nestle to reduce that water waste by 12 %.

And by the time everyone was out of the tub, and there were a few gallons of water to wipe off the floor, I was ready for lights to be out.

According to Frigidaire, «You can save 55,000 gallons of water over the life of your Frigidaire dishwasher by eliminating hand washing.

If approved by the full board later this month, the rate for the average customer who uses less than 9,000 gallons a month would go up to $ 4.65 per 1,000 gallons of water.

Outside their home is a water buffalo — a tank large enough to hold the 1,100 gallons of water delivered by the gas company every day.

Not only that, several other water projects which were expected to add a total of 25.4 million gallons of water per day to the national stock which were expected to be completed by end of 2016, are as follows:

A total of 11.8 million gallons of water per day was added to the national stock by the Mahama administration through the following projects:

Roughly 34,348 gallons of water are used and are chilled by 16 - degree food - grade glycol that is pumped through tubes under the ice.

For those who reside in the town's water district, which encompasses parts of Schuyler Falls and Beekmantown, the water rate will increase by 17 cents per 1,000 gallons from $ 1.67 to $ 1.84.

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.

Albany County's new Waste Heat / Co-generation facility in Menands will not only save money by creating renewable energy, it will also cut CO2 emissions by nearly 1,500 tons per year and will reuse 50,000 gallons of water per day to cool the high - efficiency system.

On paper, a plan by the Kingston Water Department to sell almost 1.8 million gallons of water a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make sWater Department to sell almost 1.8 million gallons of water a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make swater a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make sense.

Thankfully, you don't have to measure your household water use personally - it's easier to go by the estimate of the United States Geological Survey: the average person in the US uses 80 - 100 gallons a day.

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

By comparison, each eruption of Old Faithful releases around 30 m3 of water, or nearly 8,000 gallons.

The use of surface water is governed by more than a century of law and, in the case of the Colorado River, divided down to the gallon under a seven - state compact and state laws.

The website Economically Sound reports that a 150 - room hotel can conserve 72,000 gallons of water and 480 gallons of laundry soap every year by placing the cards in its guest rooms.

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.

The xenon's job is to light up, with a jolt of electrical charge and a faint flash of light caught by surrounding sensors, when a dark - matter particle collides with one of its atoms — and the gallons of water and mile of rock's job is to stop anything else from getting in and disturbing it.

Another option is a dual - flush toilet operated by two buttons: Push the No. 1 button, and the toilet dispenses less than a gallon of water to whisk away liquid waste.

Furthermore, to provide each South Florida lawn with the necessary one - inch of water per week, it takes more than 62 gallons of water for every 10 - foot - by -10-foot area.

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.

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

LZ would have a 10 - ton liquid xenon target, which will fit inside the same 72,000 - gallon tank of pure water used by LUX.

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.

Namibian desert - dwelling elephants have figured out how to prevent overheating in triple - digit temperatures by covering their bodies with sand wetted by their urine or regurgitated water from a specialized pouch beneath their tongue that holds many gallons of water.

75 Trillion Number of gallons by which the earth's underground stores of water are depleted every year.

«The amount of energy stored by splitting two gallons of water in our device is able to support a Pasadena household's entire power usage for a week,» Xiang said.

The program will allow the institute to cut $ 436,000 per year from its energy bills, will save more than 18,000 gallons of water a day and reduce the institute's annual carbon footprint by 53 percent.

An artificial muscle bundle measuring just 0.4 mm across was able to lift a half - gallon of water by 1.4 in (3.6 cm), with an applied voltage of only 0.172 volts per cm.

In addition to saving 42 million gallons of water over the course of the year, the school had $ 42,000 more in its pocket by the end of the experiment — which it plans to spend on more locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, and organic pastured beef.