Sentences with phrase «supply of running water»

The difference is the back end; just as the toilet was an adaptation to a supply of running water, (see part 2) this is an adaptation to a clivus multrum composting system that has to be cleaned out every six months.

Not exact matches

Supply chain aficionados might want to geek out on how much water it takes to manufacture boxes, but most consumers will run from an avalanche of info.

Thank you Science for the invention of preservatives, thank you Science for the creation of refrigeration, thank you Science for the creation of the oven and the microwave and running hot and cold filtered water, thank you science for the creation of a supply line that provides us enough food to eat.

Spirax Sarco's solution was the EasiHeat system, which supplies up to five tonnes of instantaneous hot water per hour, eliminating the need to run the boiler to heat water overnight.

There is a long - running campaign highlighting Nestlé's exploitation of community water supplies.

The Hoosic River runs through the village, which has become the epicenter of a public health crisis after researchers discovered that the public water supply was tainted with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, which is used to make Teflon.

Efforts by fire fighters to quench the ranging inferno were unsuccessful as they repeatedly ran short of water 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.

There are no assurances that the amount of water required to run the operations of such a facility will not place a significant strain on the water supply of the neighboring communities and the County.

«If we run out of distilled water on this side of the bench,» Lensch explained, pointing to the narrow nonpresidential lab counter with supplies marked NP piled up to the ceiling, «I literally can not reach across the bench and get it from the other side.

The pines in a warmer world then ran through their stored supplies of water and energy faster than those in today's climate.

And, if some geological mechanism has been supplying water to the surface all this time, wouldn't the mantle have run out of water by now?

THE spring supplying our swollen file on enhanced waters shows no signs of running dry (20 May): Anne Barnfield reports the existence of a Canadian offering, Neurogenesis Happy Water, which offers the wet stuff replete with delicious minerals, notably lithium.

Robert Mardini, ICRC regional water co-ordinator, said the two biggest water treatment plants supplying 60 to 85 per cent of Baghdad's water — the Kurkh and Saba Nissan plants were running at much reduced capacity.

Fearing the water supply would become contaminated, there was panic buying of bottled water, until the shelves ran dry.

Re: cleaning the salt block - a youtube video from a salt block supplier said to scrape of food particles, wipe with a damp cloth and run under hot water for a few seconds.

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

The town of Black Creek, named for the oil that contaminates the water supply, has made Mikkelsen and his brother welcome, but the men who supposedly run it are under the thumb of a ruthless villain named Delarue (Morgan).

«On the island, there are 700,000 children and this is now a week that they have been without power, food, running water, access to telephones — in really scorching temperatures,» said Negin Janati of the aid group Save the Children, which has started setting up «child friendly» centers for child care and children's supplies in San Juan.

I ran up to my apartment and grabbed first aid supplies, bottles of water, and flashlights.

Before each race, the organizers must make a run for supplies — stuff like bottles of water, sunscreen, sandwich fixings, snacks, spray paint for the BRIBED stencils, and so on.

The increasing competition for water, the dwindling supply, pollution, and the effects of climate change are examined in Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis, by Stuart A. Kawater, the dwindling supply, pollution, and the effects of climate change are examined in Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis, by Stuart A. KaWater Crisis, by Stuart A. Kallen.

We have a fenced in grassy (or snowy, lol) back yard with large shade trees, oodles of various safe and fun toys, always a fresh supply of cool water, and plenty of room for all to run and play in a safe supervised environment!

If you're able to run a cord to the feeding station, an electric heated bowl will ensure a supply of unfrozen drinking water.

Keep a supply of frozen water bottles to put in the hutch or run during summer months.

«I raise a lot of puppies... but I think all puppies should be raised like we raise them, in a place like we have,» said Havens, citing the annual inspections by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the large dog runs, the regular veterinarian visits, medical record - keeping, and the always available food and water supplies.

Pet fountains allow your cat to have a continuous supply of recycled, running water.

Provision has been made for water supply if Cape Town runs out of water.

In the last exhibition at the gallery, you connected a copper pipe in the main space to the water supply for the gallery and ran it out into the center of the room.

The following three short pieces will not make a convincing scientific argument that Southern Australia's drought is being driven by a warming planet but municipal governments are facing the grim reality their water supplies could run out by the end of next year if significant rainfall does not occur.

By running the irrigation lines with built - in reverse osmosis membranes underground, the proposed irrigation system would use the pressure gradient supplied by the plants» roots to desalinize the water without the high amount of energy consumption usually associated with desalination.

Thirty days supply and that part of India runs out of water.

«The Nicaraguan government is trying to change the matrix of its energy supply, and to do so we need to preserve and conserve our nature reserves and forests so we can have the water we need to run what will be Central America's largest hydroelectric plant, Tumarin,» says Col Juan Ramon Morales, commander of the Ecological Battalion.

It's a product that works immediately and with absolutely no urinal modifications required whatsoever, other than to turn off the supply of water running to them.

The Life Pod is a small free standing structure that implements solar panels as a roof surface providing dry covered shelter and water catchment, the water off the solar roof is stored in rain barrels, on the south side there is a Hydroponic food system mounted that produces fresh organic supply of greens, on the north side of the structure is a small utility closet that houses the solar battery and all the food system equipment, on the side of the utility closet there are 4 electrical outlets and an EV charging station, you can run the AC power over to your home or business and power any of your electrical needs with the off grid energy from the Life Pod.

Average water conditions: The amount and distribution of precipitation within a drainage basin and the run off conditions present as determined by reviewing the area water supply records over a long period of time.

Water pumping is a large part of the cost of running a municipal water suWater pumping is a large part of the cost of running a municipal water suwater supply.

What they are concerned about is the fragility of the physical structures and systems that keep industrial societies running — the infrastructure of roads and railways, power plants, industry, water supplies, schools and hospitals — in the teeth of the increasing ferocity of extreme weather.

«The first official update on the state of the Australian alps in more than half a century warns that the region's dwindling snow melt and run - off will threaten the Murray - Darling's $ 10 billion lifeline to clean, reliable water supplies.

They will grow up stunted in stature and damaged in their brains, all because they lack access to cheap electricity, running clean water and sewer facilities and clothes washing and refrigeration and schools and houses and adequate supplies of fertilizer - grown food that electricity enables.

With the capture of oil fields in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Six - Day War, Israelis had sufficient fuel supplies to run electric water heaters cheaply, driving solar water heaters nearly out of business.

Success with ammonia means we will have developed and commercialized, at scale, with viable economics, infrastructure and supply chains, the following new technologies: CCS, SSAS, methane cracking, conventional and high temperature electrolysis and thermochemical water splitting for hydrogen production, nuclear heat sources and small modular reactors, and solar heat sources and renewable electricity of sufficient reliability to be integrated into high volume must - run industrial processes.

Editors» Pick: Cape Town Nurtures its Water Supply in Anticipation of Taps Running Dry.

In the short run, our choices for what kind of power plants we build can contribute to freshwater supply stress — by committing an imbalanced share of the available water to power plant use — and can affect water quality, by increasing water temperatures to levels that harm local ecosystems, for example.

Nevertheless, amenities are basic here as there is no running water and an inconstant supply of electricity.

Salient circumstances at present include a forecast zero flow nomination to the State Water Project, a counter-intuitive assessment that supplies for southern, highly populated counties are far less seriously threatened due to more robust storage, Bay Area delta eco systems threatened with «collapse», and land fallowing in the San Joaquin running to half a million acres (of a CA total of ~ 8 million irrigated, that produce nearly half the nation's fruits and veggies).

America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2009 are: # 1: Sacramento - San Joaquin River System (CA) Threat: Outdated water and flood management The largest watershed in California is on the verge of collapse, threatening the water supply for more than 26 million people, placing the capital of the nation's most populous state at high risk of flooding, and damaging a once productive and healthy ecosystem that supported the nation's most diverse salmon runs.

And when onboard water supplies run low, treated urine can become a source of essential drinking water, which would otherwise have to be delivered from Earth at a tremendous cost.»

In the short run, the melting is producing an increase of water supplies and feeding population growth in major cities of the Andes, the experts said.

Now under a federal state of emergency, following a government edict in February, local media reports say that Day Zero — the day when the city's water supply is switched off — has been set back to July 9 — a relief to those who had previously believed that April 16 or May 11 would see the taps stop running.