Sentences with phrase «percent loss of water»

And always be sure to stay hydrated — a 1.5 percent loss of water can alter your mood.

It is important to know that a 10 percent reduction of water in your body can make you sick and 20 percent loss of water in your body will lead to death.

Not exact matches

«The Cascades could see a 50 percent loss of snowpack, which could translate into a large reduction in summer water,» says Hamlet.

Even with a generous assumption that all Himalayan glacial melting since 1962 (roughly 13.4 cubic kilometers per year) was concentrated in the 150 - kilometer stretch of land closest to the study zone rather than spread across the entirety of the Himalayas, the scientists could explain, at most, 15 percent of the water loss in northwestern India.

Once infected, these plants absorb less water and nutrients, resulting in yield losses of up to 75 percent.

Afterward, in tests to see if the mice displayed the rodent equivalent of anxiety and depression symptoms, they found about 40 percent showed high levels of behaviors that included a preference for a dark compartment over a brightly lit one, or a loss of interest in sugar water.

The drought, they found, will lead this year to 32 percent more acres of land laid fallow, an increase in groundwater pumping to make up for the lack of water in rivers and reservoirs, and total job losses of 18,600.

Believe it or not, this can happen with as little as a loss of 1.5 percent of your body's water weight.

Made of water with 6 percent soy beans, this milk comes with a host of health benefits such as osteoporosis prevention and weight loss.

From a health and performance standpoint, the body has a great capacity to adapt to the possibility of higher or lesser amounts of water loss in the short term, such as during a race — a reason some athletes appear to function well despite significant (~ 3 percent) water losses.

A water loss of even one to two percent of body weight can reduce an individual's capacity to do muscular work (11).

· 16 percent of the surveyed households have introduced improved soil management techniques such as terracing, building ridges or other techniques that reduce water and soil organic matter losses

Metric bias results in more stringent gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for natural gas are only about 10 percent of its usable energy (from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

Sustainable groundwater management is essential to adapt to this massive loss of water storage and continued decline in snowpack — California is projected to lose up to 80 percent of its historic snowpack by the end of the century as temperatures continue to rise.

The loss of glaciers, which are the source for as much as 50 percent of the water in the upper Amazon, could have a significant impact on agriculture and urban water supplies as well as the Amazon rainforest.

A recent study found that 15 percent of the observed oxygen loss in oceans since 1960 could be attributed to the effects of warming water.

The annual loss of water from a reservoir in arid or semiarid regions, where evaporation rates are high, is typically equal to 10 percent of its storage capacity.

Only two out of every 100 insured homes will file a water - damage claim within the year, yet 22 percent of all insurance losses are caused by water damage on average.