Sentences with phrase «percent water per»

Watermelon and strawberries contain about 92 percent water per volume.

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Advocacy group Food & Water Watch says private companies charge 59 percent more than public utilities, or $ 185 more per year, per household.

The average American uses 176 gallons of water per day, and municipal water prices have increased 27 percent over the past five years.

Georges's product uses just 800 gallons of water per tree per year, instead of the typical 25,000 — and does a better job, with a 30 percent increase in growth and nutrients, he explained.

Ninety percent of the food - and wood - gathering work in African families is done by women, who spend 40 billion hours per year — the equivalent of the entire French workforce's annual labor — collecting water.

More than half of the participants in the diet beverage group, or 64 per cent, lost at least five percent of their body weight, compared with only 43 percent of the water group.

With a set of practices that Lotus calls More Crop Per Drop, farmers can double and even triple their yields using up to 50 percent less water on average and 80 - 90 percent less seed.

MAKE SURE TO GET HALF YOUR BODYWEIGHT IN OUNCES OF WATER PER DAY: Our bodies are made up of 60 percent water, and water is absolutely essential for a variety of physiological functWATER PER DAY: Our bodies are made up of 60 percent water, and water is absolutely essential for a variety of physiological functwater, and water is absolutely essential for a variety of physiological functwater is absolutely essential for a variety of physiological functions.

In the EPA's study of lead levels in Chicago homes, 88 percent of homes had one or more water sample where the lead value was over 7 parts per billion.

Consumer Reports tested samples of apple and grape juice and found that 10 percent of the samples had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking - water standards of 10 parts per billion (ppb) and 25 percent of the samples had lead levels higher than the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) bottled - water limit of 5 ppb.

The study notes that narrowing down that percent range requires particle accelerator experiments on water ice to more accurately gauge the number of chemical reactions that result per unit of energy deposited by cosmic rays and solar energetic particles.

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.

From 2000 - 2014, the river's flows declined to only 81 percent of the 20th - century average, a reduction of about 2.9 million acre - feet of water per year.

This study shows that aragonite saturation state in waters shallower than 328 feet or 100 meters depth decreased by an average of 0.4 percent per year from the decade spanning 1989 - 1998 to the decade spanning 1998 - 2010.

With a combination of water, plant food and 17,500 LEDs, he harvests as much as 10,000 heads of lettuce a day — 100 times more per square foot than an ordinary farm — using 90 percent less water and producing 80 percent less waste.

Between 2002 and 2008 per capita urban water use — already low compared with the western U.S. — declined by 37 percent.

Countywide irrigation water savings ranged from 4 percent to 9 percent, with per capita savings largest in medium density environments, or those with a mix of buildings and landscaping.

Goupitan, the largest hydroelectric generator in Guizhou province, reportedly produced only 10 percent of its normal output per day, due to shrinking water flows.

But IMC only serves 54 percent of the population, and the 16 percent of people who live in informal settlements get less than the minimum 40 liters of water per capita per day, as specified by the government of India.

Antibiotic resistance, which can be exacerbated by aging public water infrastructure, was present in between one and two percent of hospitalizations and increased the cost per case by between 10 to 40 percent.

The results showed that 20 percent of the wells surveyed had arsenate and arsenite concentrations above the drinking water limit of 10 micrograms per liter.

The program will allow the institute to cut $ 436,000 per year from its energy bills, will save more than 18,000 gallons of water a day and reduce the institute's annual carbon footprint by 53 percent.

The volume will only get larger, too: oil and gas producers use at least 7.5 million liters of water per well to fracture subterranean formations and release entrapped hydrocarbon fuels, a practice that has grown in the U.S. by at least 48 percent per year in the last five years, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Drinking only one more percent of water per day than you usually do, will consequently result in 8.58 percent less calories consumed during the day, 0.74 grams less sugar, 9.8 milligrams less sodium and 0.88 grams less cholesterol.

The recommendation by the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) is to add a half cup of regular strength (6 percent) bleach to a full tub of water, or one teaspoon of bleach per gallon of water for babies.

Rinsing canned red kidney beans under running tap water reduces their sodium content by approximately 10 percent per 3.5 - ounce serving, according to USDA data.

PPRT includes an additional state income tax on corporations and partnerships, a tax on businesses that sell gas or water, a 0.5 percent fee on all gross charges for telecommunications services excluding wireless services, and a per - kilowatt tax on electricity distributors.

For Primo Water, earnings per share growth is expected to be 25 percent for the next half decade.

Per the FDA, «beef for dogs» means the food should be at least 95 percent beef (70 percent after the water has cooked away).

The resort is also actively involved in Starwood's landmark environmental initiative 30/20 by 20, which calls for a 30 percent reduction in energy use and a 20 percent reduction in water consumption per built hotel room globally by 2020.

Living the dream on card rewards Those who don't know us very well may think we are living the high life, but the truth is that our $ 250 hotel room near the line of totality during the eclipse was booked for 3,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points; our flight to Wyoming was 100 percent free on a private plane thanks to a crazy JetSmarter promotion for those who could prove they had a million miles; our resort complete with water slides and a lazy river in San Antonio was booked using an annual credit card award night when the room normally costs $ 300 - plus per night; our amazing room at the Park Hyatt New York was booked using 30,000 Hyatt points per night when the selling price was almost $ 1,000 per night; and most of our other flights were booked via a collection of airline miles and credit card points that were primarily earned by leveraging our everyday spending for major rewards.

Only 61 percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to improved sources of water, while the level in most other regions is 90 per cent or higher.

ENERGY STAR certified steam cookers also save 90 percent or more water than standard steam cooker models - using, on average, 3 gallons of water per hour for certified steam cookers versus 40 gallons of water per hour for standard models.

This — combined with the energy used to refrigerate and haul the bottled water in trucks, sometimes over hundreds of miles — means the U.S. bottled water industry consumes roughly 50 million barrels of oil per year, equal to 13 percent of U.S. oil imports from Saudi Arabia.

Per Hsu and Velicogna 2017, between April 2002 and October 2014 global mean sea level grew by about 1.8 millimeters per year, with 43 percent of the increased water mass coming from Greenland, 16 percent from Antarctica, and 30 percent from mountain glaciePer Hsu and Velicogna 2017, between April 2002 and October 2014 global mean sea level grew by about 1.8 millimeters per year, with 43 percent of the increased water mass coming from Greenland, 16 percent from Antarctica, and 30 percent from mountain glacieper year, with 43 percent of the increased water mass coming from Greenland, 16 percent from Antarctica, and 30 percent from mountain glaciers.

Under the Aam Aadmi Party's platform, Delhi families will get 20,000 liters of free water a month, and those who use less than 400 kilowatt - hours of electricity per month will get a 50 percent discount on their electric bills.

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China's water resources per capita, for example, are only 35 percent of the global average, and India's are just 19 percent.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Results showed that the extent of multi-year ice, which includes areas of the Arctic Ocean where multi-year ice covers at least 15 percent of the water's surface, is shrinking at a rate of 15.1 percent per decade.

They predicted the response of the water cycle for the two cases and found that, in the former, evaporation increases by 2 percent per degree of warming while in the latter this number reaches 3 percent.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- Iraq is losing between 5 and 8 percent of its gross domestic product to environmental degradation each year, while the amount of water available per person has dropped by more than half since the late 1970s, according to a new government study.

Currently, Israel shares with Cyprus the highest per - capita use of solar water heaters in the world, and more than 90 percent of Israeli households heat their water with the sun.

While water vapor accounts for one to two percent of the atmosphere on any given day, «CO2 is only about 0.04 % of the atmosphere (400 parts per million), so it's much less important than water vapor.»

Rooftop solar water heaters have a capacity of 0.7 kilowatts per square meter and a capacity factor similar to rooftop photovoltaics (22 percent); nominal capacity from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op.

The sustainable water target specifies that per capita water consumption will be at least 50 percent less than the national average and all waste water will be re-used.

However, because atmospheric concentrations of water vapor tend to be at most only a few percent of the amount of air (and usually much lower), they are both often expressed in units of grams of water vapor per kilogram of (moist or dry) air.

The scientists estimated that the swarm consumed up to 74 percent of microscopic carbon - containing plants from the surface water per day, and their sinking fecal pellets transported up to 4,000 tons of carbon a day to deep water.

With its population growing at 3 percent per year and with water tables falling everywhere, Yemen is fast becoming a hydrological basket case.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.