Sentences with phrase «of gallons of water on»

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.»

Not exact matches

The dust has hardly settled on abandoned Juicero machines, yet already the world has moved on to the latest tech lifestyle outrage: unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water, sold at upwards of $ 20 a gallon.

Feldstein went online and sourced a pump in Iowa used mainly on pig farms that could clear hundreds of gallons of water a minute, and paid to fly it in.

A large - scale facility that sits on 360 acres, the Nevada Solar One plant uses 850 gallons of water per megawatt hour, the SEIA states.

Among the items on display are a restored 115 - ton Corliss steam engine that was once used to pump 8 million gallons of water a day, a 13 - ton, 20 - foot - tall Nasmyth steam hammer, and the Scalamandre «White House» loom that made fabric for every White House presidency from Hoover to Clinton.

He also has a 10,000 gallon tank of water on his home's property that can serve as backup to the municipal water supply in emergencies.

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

-- Andrew Davis, CEO of Squeegy, an app for on - demand car washes which use only a few ounces of water, unlike a traditional car wash, which uses about 40 gallons of water per vehicle.

The storm dumped more than nine trillion gallons of water on Houston, the equivalent of a years» worth of rainfall in four - and - a-half days.

Hurricane Harvey hovered over the Gulf Coast in late August and dumped 33 trillion gallons of water on US soil, according to some estimates, and is now the wettest storm in US history.

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...

A months supply of water is on average 16 gallons.

There is an advanced heating system that circulates water heated during the day through tubes in the concrete floor (the heated water is stored in a 10,000 - gallon reservoir on the side of the building).

Holding perhaps 180 gallons, when only a drop of water on the wrist was needed for purification, they would have sufficed for most of Israel.

Did you know that producing a half gallon of plant - based beverages requires on average 77 percent less water than producing the same amount on conventional dairy milk.

my honey agrees... I imagine I'll have to keep a gallon of water available so that he doesn't choke on the crumbs (as he stuffs his pie hole full, too!)

• 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.

With a focus on constant improvement of practices and adoption of the latest farming and winemaking technologies, McManis Family Vineyards» water use efficiency measures in the vineyard include the use of soil moisture sensors, flow meters and distribution uniformity tests; while their winery recycles water and averages one gallon of water to produce one gallon of wine.

The campaign will feature a «gallons saved» counter at the main entrance to Albert Park and a reusable water bottle giveaway to the first 200 fans to enter the ballpark courtesy courtesy of Marin Municipal Water District on Water Conservation Day on Julwater bottle giveaway to the first 200 fans to enter the ballpark courtesy courtesy of Marin Municipal Water District on Water Conservation Day on JulWater District on Water Conservation Day on JulWater Conservation Day on July 30.

Using the 50 gallon plastic drums, some gutter pieces on the end of the metal roof, and a spigot in the drum - it's making watering an easier experience.

It runs for 11 hours on one tank of water and puts out 2.1 gallons of cool mist to relieve stuffy noses, cough and dry respiratory passages.

Plus, its automatic water level indicator retains up to two - and - a-half gallons of liquid, so can you rest - easy knowing your accent will be watered — even on the days you forget!

Older kids generally take me up on my suggestion, but the younger kids usually look across the way to where I'm pointing, then return to methodically emptying those 5 gallon buckets onto the ground, or, when they get tired of that, into any other empty container they find to fill — a wagon, the inside of a tire, another watering can — but rarely the garden.

8 ounce bottle makes 2 gallons - Mix 1 - 3 tsp of Lusa Organics Baby Juice with 1 cup of water and store for easy access on the go

«Longfellow Park uses about 12,000 gallons of water weekly just from kids playing on the splash pad,» Arnold said.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

Mr. Romaine said he will introduce a resolution in the county Legislature this Tuesday instructing the Department of Health Services» well drilling unit to install fire wells capable of providing 400 gallons of water per minute on county parkland within the Pine Barrens.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone used his State of the County message to tout his proposed $ 1 per 1,000 gallon surcharge on water as «a reasoned, measured approach» to fight nitrogen pollution and also said he would fight against «those who would abuse their power.»

The Water Board issued written statements blaming those on heavy rains overtaxing the wastewater treatment plant's capacity of 60 million gallons a day.

Millions of gallons of groundwater and stormwater pollutants associated with the Croton water filtration plant project in Van Cortlandt Park are being inappropriately discharged into parkland, says Karen Argenti on Waterblogged.

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.

Fifty years ago when IBM arrived with similar demands on the water system — actually, a minimum of 1 million gallons a day, seldom reached — that deal was trotted out behind marching bands.

«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.

The authority stated that for an average residential water user — using 17,000 gallons of water a year — this will work out to an additional 85 cents on their bill per quarter.

This filter is ideal to be used on terrariums with up to 20 gallons of water.

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

At present, though, Singapore depends on Malaysia for about half of the 300 million gallons of fresh water it requires daily.

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.

The EPA's treatment requirements are a little like the first gallon of water you slosh on the fire at the end of the night.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico sank the oil rig and created a leak that has spewed millions of gallons into the water.

Concerns over hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that injects millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale, have largely focused on potential impacts on water quality.

A seven - inch - wide pipe on display at the exhibit resembles modern - day conduits and probably carried about four gallons of water a minute.

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.

Our Very Wet Footprint The average person on earth has a virtual water footprint of about 328,410 gallons each year; that includes everything used to make the food, clothing, and other water - driven products we consume.

Here's how it is figured: It takes about 155 gallons of water on average to grow a pound of wheat.

One of the state's largest spills to date occurred in 2014, when an underground pipeline leak caused approximately 1 million gallons of brine to flow down a ravine and into Bear Den Bay, about a quarter mile upstream from a drinking water intake on Lake Sakakawea.

In the 6 days after Harvey made landfall on 25 August, the storm dropped 25 trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana, according to WeatherBell meteorologist Ryan Maue (in comparison, the Chesapeake Bay contains 18 trillion gallons).

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.

One new feature, for example, is a 2.8 - million - liter (750,000 - gallon) water tank on top of the containment vessel surrounding the core that would use gravity in the case of emergency to send water flowing over the core, cooling it to prevent a meltdown.