Sentences with phrase «of water each year»

India pumps 190 cubic kilometres of water a year from below ground, but only 120 cubic kilometres is replenished naturally, says the report.

Oscar Mayer has long been the largest customer of the Madison Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux said.

But each shale - gas well needs 15,000 tonnes of water a year to run.

In the 1950s about 1.3 billion cubic meters of water a year flowed into the Dead Sea.

Environmental water contributed to longitudinal connectivity in the channels of the Lower Gwydir, especially during the early and mid-stages of the water year.

In the northern Basin most catchments have continuous accounting rules, and there are no carryover limits applied at the end of a water year.

«With this new system we'll treat some 15 million gallons of water a year, with significant efficiency gains — and bring things full - circle with enhanced compost for our soils and clean water for vineyard and landscape irrigation.

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

It is designed so that rights holders can generally expect to receive a certain percentage of their water every year, based on the type of water right they hold.

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.

Quaggas filter nutrients out of the water year - round.

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 today.

The 50 - megawatt wind farm will save 18,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide and 1.6 million tonnes of water each year, compared to coal power.

But hop flowers are expensive, and producing them takes 100 billion liters of water a year in the United States alone.

Washington officials think the industrious critters could save more of 650 trillion gallons of water each year, blunting the effects of hot and dry summers.

«If all the restaurants in California were to do this, it could save between 5 and 10 billion gallons of water a year,» Cox told CBS.

Only about 40 % of the water reaches the crops, while evaporation in the hot sun takes more than two metres of water a year from the reservoirs - a total of around 300m cubic metres from Elephant Butte alone.

Bishop's land brings with it legal rights to 10m cubic metres of water a year from the river - enough to flood his fields to a depth of more than a metre, enough to grow almost any crop he wants.

Americans purchase approximately 42.6 billion individual 1 - liter bottles of water each year.

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

A redesign of the restaurant's walk - in coolers is saving a million gallons of water a year.

With 8 systemwide upgrades given to their top - tier elites every year (usable on just about any ticket), fantastic partner awards (albeit not on TATL routes) and 100 % bonus miles for their middle - tier elites, AAdvantage blew MileagePlus out of the water year after year.

It does depend upon the technology, but for example, the concentrated solar power plants proposed for Ivanpah Valley in the Mojave Desert would use about 100 acre feet of water a year — but most of that would be not in power productions but used to wash the mirrors:

People waste billions of gallons of water a year watering their lawns, and the landfills are bursting at the seams.

The new technology will save the terminal almost $ 300,000 in electric bills and 1.7 million gallons of water a year.

These gardens could absorb more than 5.7 million gallons of water every year, not to mention the millions of gallons already being absorbed by the existing parks.

In total, the 20 buildings cover over 1,000,000 square feet of space and conserve the equivalent of 5 olympic sized swimming pools full of water, or in other words 3,500,000 gallons of water each year.

3) The GE Profile SmartDispense dishwasher uses only as much soap as it needs, uses less water while maintaining water velocity and pressure; if all Americans used one of these puppies, over 15.5 billion gallons of water a year would be saved — enough to fill more than 20,000 Olympic - sized pools.

Green School Maintenance Simple maintenance and facilities choices, such as using the Eco-Cube or Ecoblue Cube can save thousands of gallons of water each year because they allow water in urinals to be turned off, while letting naturally occurring microbes do the work instead.

Their findings showed a startling 218 - 990 million hectares of land would have to be converted to switchgrass (which is 14 - 65 times as much land as the US uses to grow corn for ethanol); also 17 - 79 million tonnes of fertiliser a year — which would be 75 % of all global nitrogen fertiliser used at present; and 1.6 - 7.4 trillion cubic metres of water a year.

The Seaver building's low - flow toilets, waterless urinals, and other water - saving techniques save 35,200 gallons of water each year, or the equivalent of taking two 10 - minute showers every day for the entire year, doing 782 loads of laundry, flushing a normal toilet over 7,000 times, or doing 2,347 loads of dishes in a dishwasher.

Many parts of California have received nearly twice as much rain as normally falls in the first five months of a water year, which began on October 1.

The Carmichael mine would require 12 billion litres of water each year from local rivers and underground aquifers, enough drinking water for every Queenslander for three years.

[5] The SWE / P ratio shows what fraction of current water year precipitation remains in the snow pack for any given day of the water year: the closer SWE (snow water equivalent) is to P (overall precipitation), the more water resources remain.

Or 4730 trillion cubic meter a year - or about 4.7 million cubic km of water a year.

However, it also said the 2C scenario would save more than 200bn cubic metres of water a year and use nearly 150,000 square kilometres less land overall.

According to data gleaned via NASA's Ice Bridge aerial survey, the glacier is giving up 46 gigatons of water every year, or about a single Chesapeake Bay every two years.

On a commercial scale:» A Waterless urinal saves on average 45,000 gallons of water a year.

Despite the different approaches, however, we are confident that data collected by the two programs can be compared at the end of the water year.

More Recipes from the Green Wine Guide Homemade Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes, Red Onion and Gorgonzola Baked Apple Stuffed with Candied Ginger and Almonds Indian - Spiced Tomato Soup Seared Brussels Sprouts with a Smoked Gouda Sauce and Freshly Grated Horseradish Chèvre - Stuffed Dates with Pomegranate Molasses and Chili Oil More from the Green Wine Guide Frog's Leap Winery: Saves 10 Million Gallons of Water a Year with Dry - Farming Benziger:»60s Pot Farm Becomes Sonoma's First Certified Biodynamic Winery Kaz Vineyard & Winery: Serious Organic Wine for the Not - So - Serious Medlock Ames: An Organic Vineyard with Mini Cows and a Century - Old Biker Bar Jacuzzi Wines and Cline Cellars: «Beyond Organic» Winemaking

Caroma expects that their system will save the city millions of gallons of water each year just by replacing common urinals with their H2Zero waterless urinals.

Circle of Blue reports that in Australia's New South Wales, six projects are set to save the state an estimated five billion liters of water a year.

In addition, the building will save more than 1 million gallons of water a year by installing new, highly efficient systems and an innovative draining and filtering system.

Regency Centers expects to save as much as 42 million gallons of water each year thanks to WeatherTRAK.

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Another reason to switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs Based on these calculations, a compact fluorescent light bulb will not only save 60 - 70 % in energy costs, using the bulbs will also save between 2,000 and 4,000 gallons of water every year.

By reducing evaporation, these shade balls will conserve 300 million gallons of water each year, instead of just evaporating into the sky.

We consume 70 million restaurant meals a day at almost one million restaurants across the country, with each establishment churning out 50,000 pounds of waste, and using around 300,000 gallons of water every year.

More Recipes from the Green Wine Guide Homemade Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes, Red Onion and Gorgonzola Risotto with a Portabella Duxelle Seared Brussels Sprouts with a Smoked Gouda Sauce and Freshly Grated Horseradish Tempeh, Broccoli, and Red Bell Pepper Stir Fry More from the Green Wine Guide Frog's Leap Winery: Saves 10 Million Gallons of Water a Year with Dry - Farming Benziger:»60s Pot Farm Becomes Sonoma's First Certified Biodynamic Winery Medlock Ames: An Organic Vineyard with Mini Cows and a Century - Old Biker Bar

The Sahara Desert could probably absorb a foot of water every year for centuries.