Sentences with phrase «only source of our water»

Mary's well in the center of Nazareth was until recently the only source of water and must have been the place to which Jesus went with his mother to collect water.

In a village called Nsiana, residents complained that some Chinese - operated mines were polluting the rivers, which were their only source of water.

Liljedahl said the recharge of the aquifers is important because they don't freeze during the winter and are the only source of water to the rivers during this time.

Even if it was, this was probably not the only source of our water.

This was her only source of water and as she watched him lap it up, she realized things were going downhill fast.

In this very flat region, they are the only source of water in the jungle.

provide access to underground rivers however and were the only source of water for the Itza people.

According to Voragine, there was once a dragon who had set up camp at the entrance to a spring, the only source of water for the nearby city of Silene.

So, what will happen to regions that depend on late summer snow - or - glacier - melt as their only source of water?

They knew its proximate cause was the retreat of their glacier and permanent snowfields, which is the only source of water in that part of the world.

Although a «hidden resource», groundwater serves the basic needs of more than half the world's population and may be the only source of water in arid and semi-arid countries.

Not exact matches

USA Today made it to the town Arecibo on the Northern shore of the island, where residents hadn't heard any news from the outside world for four days, and the only source of fresh water is from a single fire hydrant.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The in situ method is more costly than the mining method, but it is much less damaging to the environment, requiring only a few hundred meters of land and a nearby water source to operate.

Before it is killed though it walks on water, turns water into wine, heals lepers and makes a zombie out of a man named Lazarus (funny that there is only one source docu.ment for these spectacular events).

The Gihon spring, outside the city wall — ancient Jerusalem's only unfailing source of water — is made inaccessible to attackers, and its waters channeled through a tunnel cut through the rock, into the city, for a distance of about 1700 feet.

That argument would only hold water if the fossil record was the only source of data on evolution... it's not.

The New York WaterMaker is a patent - pending water source replication system that not only functions as a commercial water filter, but also replicates the exact hardness, molecular structure, and chemical composition of a specific location's water, with a key focus on replicating New York City water.

Just want to share some valuable info (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724) since I'm writing from Los Angeles — almond crops are currently responsible for making the current extreme draught conditions even worse because they are such a water - intensive crop in an area that does not naturally have sufficient water supply, so please consider using other nuts and seeds instead, as CA is currently the only major source of almonds in the world (if you're able to find a small, local / non-CA supplier, wonderful!).

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

the only source of food and drink for your baby should be your milk (without supplementary feeding, water, teas, stewed fruit and so on);

Ecological Breastfeeding criteria stipulate that breastfeeding must be the only source of nutrition (no formula, solids, pumping milk or even water) and the baby should not use any kind of pacifier or finger, in order to encourage as much suckling at the breast as possible.

How would you stay alive if you had to hunt and grow your own food, search for fresh sources of water and live without electricity, using only your wits and skills?

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According to Plastiras, the email from the engineer to other department officials shows only that they thought it was possible that PFOA was being used in manufacturing near Petersburgh, and that it was not on an EPA list of chemicals used at area facilities whose presence in local water sources would have required the state to take action.

«Very simply, the federal government only requires the testing of water sources in communities of 10,000 people or more.

Burstein has said she would only consider such testing if she were presented with evidence that tap water was becoming an identified source of lead poisoning.

They then headed into the only stream serving as the source of drinking water for the community.

The plant currently under construction in Van Cortlandt Park is only for filtering water from the Croton watershed — the source for only about 10 % of the City's water.

Professor Bill Keevil, Director of Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton, says: «If a contamination event (accidental or deliberate) occurs in a drinking water network, it is essential to identify the sources of contamination and to determine the area which is likely to be contaminated, in order to isolate and decontaminate the affected area only, as well as keep supplying drinking water in non-affected areas.

Hydrogen gas is a promising alternative energy source to overcome our reliance on carbon - based fuels, and has the benefit of producing only water when it is reacted with oxygen.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

Libya, whose only other water source is the salty Mediterranean, was drawing water off by way of an underground network of pipes and aqueducts known as the Great Man - Made River, which Libyans describe as the eighth wonder of the world.

The two proven approaches to desalination — heating water and then distilling it, or using an osmotic filter — have reached a level of maturity at which they can be economically workable, but only when getting freshwater from traditional sources is either impossible or too expensive.

For the first time, researchers have sustainably produced hydrogen gas, a potential source of clean energy, using only water and bacteria.

They can only thrive as businesses if they appropriately manage the dependencies of their supply chains on water sources.

«As surface water sources became more scarce during a given climate cycle, the only species to survive may have been those with adaptations for sufficient mobility to discover a new and more persistent groundwater source, or those already settled within home range of such a resource,» co-author Professor Gail Ashley, Rutgers University (US), said.

Some other fish possess a «passive» electric sense, detecting only external sources of electricity such as those associated with water currents.

She was suggesting that Europa's ocean was not its only source of liquid water; the moon also harbored hidden lakes far closer to vital molecules on the surface, perhaps close enough to support miniature habitable ecosystems.

There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Watersheds not only supply water for domestic use but also provide a multitude of ecological and cultural services, including water for irrigation and industry, shelter, habitats for biodiversity and, in very poor areas, sources of livelihoods.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently instructed the city to cut its reliance on distant water sources in half by 2024, and the city of Santa Monica plans to use only local water by 2020.

I am caught between water scarcity and my only source of livelihood,» a woman who sells fruits and vegetables in the low - income area of Goma ki Phel is reported as saying in the report.

One of the only ways to relieve this pain is by dipping the infected area in the local water source.

After adjustment for factors likely to affect re-infection such as latrine use and drinking water source, 14 % of the children in the handwashing with soap groups (handwashing alone and handwashing plus nail clipping) were re-infected with parasites compared to 29 % of the children in the no handwashing groups (nail clipping only or neither intervention).

She estimated it had spread through about 12 square miles of the aquifer, which is the only source of drinking water in the area.

But organic contaminants are not the only source of contaminated water.

Proposed new uranium mining threatens to contaminate the only source of drinking water for 15,000 people on Navajo lands.

Amongst these seas only the East / Japan Sea has no outflow of intermediate and deep water (containing anthropogenic CO2) to an adjacent major basin; the others are known to be significant sources of intermediate and deep water to the open ocean.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.