Sentences with phrase «remaining water supply»

Mechanic Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the few people left on Earth, responsible for maintaining the heavily armed drones that protect the large harvesters that are slurping up Earth's remaining water supply.

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That month, the combined supply at all of California's biggest reservoirs stood at about 78 % of their average levels, but officials remained cautiously optimistic, saying there was no guarantee that the state would see enough storms to fully raise water levels.

Construction material is in just as short supply as food, clean water and medical supplies — so when a building becomes damaged or destroyed, it remains that way.

Most of the remaining 1 percent of the earth's water supply is found in underground aquifers which are recharged by rainwater seeping through the soil.

We do not know so much about the baths and the common meals from documents, but the remains of the monastery make it plain that the Qumran community did have a common dining hall and an elaborate water supply for purifications.

Weather Officials Say El Nino Is a Bust as California Enters 6th Year of Drought El Nino was a bust and water remains in short supply as California enters a sixth year of drought.

It could take up to two years to find a solution to Katherine's water supply woes, with authorities warning usage restrictions triggered by potentially toxic PFAS chemicals will remain in place until a new water source for the town is established.

The remaining six sub-sectors reported decline in the following order: management of companies; construction; water supply, sewage & waste management; professional, scientific, & technical services; utilities and real estate, rental & leasing.

«The water supply, sewage & waste management and transportation & warehousing sub-sectors remained unchanged, while the remaining two subsectors recorded growth in the order: arts, entertainment & recreation and educational services.»

Nonetheless, landfill is a cheap method of waste disposal, and despite some of the problems it has encountered - such as concerns about the leaching of contaminants into local water supplies - it remains more acceptable to the public than alternatives such as incineration.

«One bright spot for the industry is government spending on infrastructure, which we see remaining strong throughout our five year forecast period, with commitments to the rail network, a new five year programme for investment in water and, towards the end of the period in particular, the start of major investments in new energy supply.

Power and running water remains a scarcity throughout the island; schools are closed and many hospitals remain hobbled by inadequate supplies of medicine and electricity.

Arizona law, too, treats groundwater and surface water as unconnected, as does Arizona's state water plan, which purports to account for water resources and to estimate how many years of supply remain.

However, protecting health and the water supply needed to be balanced with ensuring that the local population remained employed.

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

The increased salinity of the remaining waters killed off a once abundant supply of sturgeon and carp and contaminated the groundwater.

The bacteria living in these sediments were respiring the oxygen but at a slower rate than the supply of organic material dropping out of the water column, allowing these ancient deep marine sediments to remain oxygenated.

All of the remaining reactors, however, will remain offline until they have been upgraded to meet extended safety requirements, such such as the provision of alternative power supplies, multiple sources of cooling water, back - up control rooms and venting to prevent hydrogen escape.

Such an outlet hole prevents wash water from remaining in the silver ion casing after the water supply operation is stopped, and allows silver ions of a proper concentration to be added to the wash water.

Processed foods and drinks also contain chloride, fluoride, aluminum and other harmful compounds from municipal water supplies, not to mention the remains of excreted pharmaceutical drugs.

FIn 2011, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer temporarily suspended use of the poultry drug Roxarsone after FDA reports showing that the arsenical compounds in the drug may break down into inorganic arsenic, a toxin that can produce skin lesions, respiratory irritation, and several types of cancer in exposed persons, Fand may leach into local water supplies or remain in chicken tissue after slaughter.

Our remaining nine schools are supplied municipal water through either Plainfield Township or the City of Rockford, who both conduct regular testing of their water supplies.

When your pet travels or is to remain crated for an extended time, a water bottle and dog travel bowl provide a steady supply of food and water.

Abandoned after only 15 years due to a dwindling water supply, the city remains beautifully preserved to this day.

Furthermore, even if a hacker did manage to compromise a city's water supply, its power lines and law - enforcement technology would remain completely unaffected.

New York City and the communities downstream of one of the city's reservoirs in the Catskills may have dodged a disaster as the swirling remains of Hurricane Irene dumped between 9 and 13 inches of rain across the valleys feeding that part of the city's water supply.

So as the population explodes, human use of water expands, and pollution reduces the already limited amount available, the remaining volume of freshwater accessible to supply this demand grows smaller.»

The remaining 90 percent is mainly supplied by evaporation from oceans, seas, and other bodies of water (lakes, rivers, streams).

Questions that remain unanswered and are of interest to biometeorologists include: how do these contrasting landscapes affect the exchanges of energy on seasonal and annual time scales; and, do biophysical constraints imposed by water supply and water demand affect whether the land is occupied by open grasslands or savanna?

They remain in the water supply, where they're often eaten by small fish, even zooplankton.

Still to come are changes that would send the city sprawling further northward, into some of the last large green space around, an area that has historically provided much of Istanbul's water supply and remains the «lungs of the city.»

But the fact remains, that the spectrum which is supplying the GHG resonance energies, is akin to that radiated by an ordinary yard brick or a bottle of water, at room Temperature.

However, there remains a small but significant number of dwellings without an organized sewerage system or water supply.