Sentences with phrase «tap water costs»

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«Meanwhile, the cost of what comes out of the tap - which is the best quality water you can get - is two cents a litre,» Kiernan says.

We all want the best for our kids, and it can often seem like if something costs more, it should automatically be better — which is why many parents give their children bottled water instead of the stuff that comes out of the tap.

But the additional cost of pumping the water onshore and, ultimately, to the tap, must also be factored in, Sanford said.

And the City of Los Angeles plans to replace some 140,000 street lamps with LED fixtures by 2014 at a cost of $ 57 million, tapping some of its funding from the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.

It is unclear just how much it will cost to tap into energy from large bodies of water.

Where heat pumps are used for heating, they are capable of highly cost - efficient energy applications because they tap into a limitless supply of «free» heat — either the surrounding air or heat captured in the ground or water, such as a lake.

Dripping taps and leaking toilets are not only annoying - they could be adding extra costs to your water bill.

While your puppy might like lapping up the water streaming out of your sink or bath, running the tap can cost you serious money.

The «Made in Flint» women's collection will go on show at New York's Queens Museum - a breath of glamour aimed at infusing hope into the impoverished city whose tap water became poisoned with lead in 2014 after cost - cutting by local authorities.

In Britain, we do our bit, we consume two billion litres of bottles at approx # 1.00 per litre, as a cost comparison the average cost of tap water in the UK is # 1 per 1,0000 litres.

Bottled water costs 10,000 times more than tap water and the joke on us is that 40 - percent of bottled water comes straight from the tap.

Bottled water might even be costing you nearly 2,000 times more per - gallon than the water from your tap.

A dripping tap can be not only annoying but if it is a hot tap it can cost you in both water costs and water heating costs.

New York City has great quality tap water because the city invested in water protection by purchasing land around its Catskills reservoirs to ensure that polluted runoff from roads and lawns doesn't enter the water supply.The city's $ 600 million investment in Catskills land protection and restoration did the job of $ 6 billion in capital costs to construct a water filtration plant as well as $ 200 - 300 million in annual operation and maintenance costs.

The prototype system which couples a solar hot water heater with a tankless water heater plus small storage tank and circulator, is expected to provide energy savings, water savings, and increased temperature control at the domestic taps at a small incremental cost relative to the same solar hot water heater coupled with only a tankless water heater.

It can cost up to 8,000 times as much energy to bottle and distribute the water than the energy needed to produce your own readily available tap water.

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And this energy cost is a thousand times larger than the energy required to procure, process, treat, and deliver tap water.»

Cutting edge data centers of the future will require less of a physical human presence, and are likely to: â $ cents Rely on a VIL to optimize equipment management and provide for virtual remote control capable of instant changes, switches and adds â $ cents Achieve LEED certification for the physical building â $ cents Rely on more efficient water cooling that potentially takes advantage of an on - site tower to chill water for cooling the system (thus reducing energy consumption by using nature's natural cooling power to chill water) â $ cents Use fluid dynamics models to precisely design the interior of the building to maximize the efficiency of the HV / AC system for air - cooled computing systems â $ cents Tap into a mixed energy grid that relies on green energy sources such as solar, wind or hydroelectric (depending on geographic feasibility), along with a reliable city grid thus avoiding the need for the standard back - up Uninterruptible Power Supply (which will reduce equipment costs, minimize floor space used, and increase energy efficiency because systems that employ a UPS convert AC to DC and back, incurring substantial energy losses).

Per ConvergEx Group Chief Market Strategist Nick Colas, Americans spend over $ 11 billion on bottled water every year, even though tap wateris cheap — so cheap, in fact, you could drink eight glasses of it per day, for an entire year, and still have it cost half the price of a single bottle of water bought at a gas station.