Sentences with phrase «of gallons of water required»

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Every shale - gas well that is fracked requires between three and eight million gallons of water.

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.

The estimated 634 gallons of fresh water required to produce one 5.2 ounce (150g) beef burger would be enough for a four - hour shower.

The estimated 634 gallons of fresh water required to produce a single beef burger equate to taking a four - hour shower.

For comparison, the same quantity of tofu requires 143 gallons of water to produce.

And when it comes to water use, the comparison couldn't be more stark: Pulses use only five gallons of water to produce each gram of protein, while beef requires 29.6 gallons of water for each gram.

Manufacturing a single cotton t - shirt requires a whopping 700 gallons of water.

At Home you needs to stock some common medicine, kit box, must be have candles, matches, oil lamp, torch light, batteries, extra warm cloths, diapers, hand gloves, always keep at home couple of gallons drinking water and some dry foods [like - biscuits] that don't require cooking.

It requires around 400 gallons of water to create one cotton t - shirt and, when 10.5 million tonnes of clothing are sent to landfill each year in the US, doing your bit to ensure the clothing you buy lasts as long as possible is something small but significant you can do for the environment.

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.»

When the DEC's last impact statement was released in 1992, a typical well required only about 80,000 gallons of water.

Keeping the ice at the perfect level for the better part of four months requires some 34,348 gallons of water.

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.

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

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

528 Minimum amount of water, in gallons, required to produce a day's worth of food for one person, according to United Nations estimates.

In 1992, after it was noted that a flush toilet uses 40 percent of a household's water, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act (EPAct), requiring all new toilets within two years to use only 1.5 gallons (5.5 liters) for each flush, when the average was an astonishing eight gallons (30 liters).

Meagan S. Mauter and colleagues point out that a major criticism of extracting shale gas through hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is that it requires tremendous amounts of water — 2.5 to 5 million gallons — to develop a single well.

It is estimated that, for each well requiring maintenance water, somewhere between 400 and 1,400 gallons is used per day, though limited data are publicly available for this type of water usage.

Typically, each well requires 2 million to 10 million gallons of water to extract the gas.

Industrial concentrated solar arrays can require 800 gallons of water to produce a single megawatt hour.

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.

«Drilling a single well can require between 3 to 6 million gallons of water, and thousands of wells are fracked each year.

And dairy isn't much better, requiring 1,000 gallons of water to produce just one gallon of milk.

Since a full tub normally takes from 27 — 32 gallons of water, 2.5 pounds of natural salt is required.

1.5 gallons of water are required to produce ONE ALMOND.

If you are training intensely at least 5 times per week, you may require up to or over a gallon of water per day.

The beef industry estimates that a pound of beef requires 435 gallons of water, mostly for grain production to feed the animal.

Pasture - raised beef requires only the water that the animal drinks, which works out to about 30 gallons of water per pound of beef, about the amount used in one shower.

Oops, we forgot to factor in that that same pound of beef also requires 1,000 gallons of water!

As simple as it may seem to lift up a gallon of water or throw a basketball, each movement requires a complex set of actions and reactions from your arm muscles.

A single roll of toilet paper requires 37 gallons of water to make, and the average American uses 57 sheets of toilet paper per day.

It requires no power or running water to operate, costs about $ 20, stores 5 gallons, and filters that can clean about 800 gallons of water cost about $ 6.50.

This type of unit must be attached to an incoming water source and does require at least 3.5 gallons per minute of water flow to create the suction needed in the gallon bottles (if you can fill a five - gallon pail in 90 to 100 seconds, it should work).

Several gallons of water require a lot more mopping than a traditional dog bowl full of water does.

A 1,000 pound horse requires from 8 - 12 gallons of water / day or it may develop impaction colic, a severe form of constipation.

Maintaining a lush lawn requires regular watering and homeowners spend countless hours and thousands of gallons of water each year watering their lawns.

250,000 gallons of water are required to fill this free - form, multi-tiered center for water - based activities.

Did you know that just one pound of beef requires roughly 1,800 gallons of water to produce?

Any builders who are unable to manage 100 % of a project's runoff on - site would be required to pay a penalty of $ 13 a gallon for the water that is not safely redirected.

A gallon of soda takes 3 gallons of water to produce, and a gallon of beer (brace yourself) requires 42 gallons of water.

By comparison, «renewable» and «sustainable» corn - based ethanol requires 2,510 to 29,100 gallons per million Btu of usable energy — and biodiesel from soybeans consumes an astounding and unsustainable 14,000 to 75,000 gallons of water per million Btu!

Many stories have latched on to an estimate that each almond kernel (nut) requires around a gallon of water to produce.

Requiring about 5 million gallons of fluid (mostly water) per well, it's clear that the water intensity of Marcellus Shale gas is more significant than first thought and likely compels more oversight of the oil and gas industry and its water use.

Requires (1) bottle - type water dispensers designed for dispensing both hot and cold water to not have standby energy consumption greater than 1.2 kilowatt - hours; (2) commercial hot food holding cabinets with interior volumes of 8 cubic feet or greater to have a maximum idle energy rate of 40 watts per cubic foot of interior volume; and (3) portable electric spas to not have a normalized standby power greater than 5 (V 2/3) watts where V equals the fill volume in gallons.

A 10 ′ x 12 ′ garden plot requires 74 gallons of potable water per week.

For example, a 525 megawatt cogeneration unit at a refinery might require 6 million gallons per day (MGD) of water intake, while a similar 525 megawatt coal - fired boiler could use more than 14 MGD.

NPS also raised concerns about the potential water withdrawals from rivers, given that each well in the Marcellus shale requires about 4 million gallons of water.

Ian McLeod — Schulman began his hunt for a species with better drought sensitivity (Bristlecones) because Sequoias grew too uniformly; basically you couldn't tell much from the Giant Sequoia because they require a tremendous amount of water to survive (500 + gallons / day) which is why they only grow near steady water sources.

About 4 million gallons (15 million liters) of water are required for each frack, far more than the 100,000 gallons conventional Pennsylvania wells once required.