Sentences with phrase «time water efficiency»

Such ambitions are lofty but not the first time water efficiency goals has been made official policy; in 2007, it set the target of reducing «water intensity» by 20 % for the five year period ending 2010.

Not exact matches

The project will look for synergies between water and nitrogen inputs, quantifying the rate and timing of nitrogen supply through mineralization; assessing the cost effectiveness of enhanced efficiency fertilizers; and evaluating new digital, precision and spatial technologies.

While ensuring cloth diapers are appropriately sanitized can at times be challenging with high - efficiency washers, these machines can significantly reduce detergent, water, and electricity usage, and save more energy with shorter drying times.

Washing cloth diapers at home uses 50 to 70 gallons (approx. 189 to 264 litres) of water every three days, which is roughly equivalent to flushing the toilet 15 times a day, unless the user has a high - efficiency washing machine.

State Director of Operations Howard Glaser threw some cold water on the prospect that the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission would produce any immediate savings in time to avoid massive state worker layoffs.

If their efficiency could be transferred to crops, we could grow more food in less time using less water and less nitrogen fertilizer.

Rice plants took up inorganic arsenic from water and soil with dismaying efficiency: at 10 times the rate of other grains.

Monash University Research Fellow Dr Philip Wallis said an analysis of options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions found energy efficiency measures reduced water consumption at the same time.

At the top of the list were energy efficiency measures that were found to reduce water consumption at the same time.»

Subsequently, the researchers took water samples at regular intervals over a period of six days in order to be able to evaluate the efficiency of the eDNA analysis over time as well.

Variable valve timing on both intake and exhaust ports further help the cause, while more efficiency is squeezed from the T6 thanks to a variable pressure oil pump and electrically driven water pump.

The N52 engine has variable valve timing, double overhead cams, a lightweight engine block made of magnesium / aluminum block and electric water pump increasing efficiency.

In addition, for the very largest home water heaters, the new efficiency standards will for the first time require advanced technologies (heat pumps for electrically - powered products and condensing technology for gas products), paving the way for even bigger future savings.

This lowers the amount of time that you have to wait for hot water, and increases the efficiency of the water heating system as a whole.

Relative rainfall reductions were amplified 1.5 — 1.7 times in dryland wheat yields, but the impact was offset by steady increases in cropping area and crop water use efficiency (perhaps partly due to CO2 fertilization).

Since 1988, Responsible Care companies have reduced hazardous releases to the air, land and water by 77 percent, improved energy efficiency overall, and have a worker safety record that is three times better than the overall chemical manufacturing sector and six times safer than the manufacturing industry as a whole.

And coupling that finding with the 32 percent increase in water use efficiency over the same time period, Urrutia - Jalabert et al. conclude the trees «are actually responding to environmental change.»

Municipalities across various countries are focusing on implementing smart water grid technology that can offer information and communication technologies at the same time in a single smart water management scheme, thus increasing efficiency.

Features of the model described here include the following: (1) tripolar grid to resolve the Arctic Ocean without polar filtering, (2) partial bottom step representation of topography to better represent topographically influenced advective and wave processes, (3) more accurate equation of state, (4) three - dimensional flux limited tracer advection to reduce overshoots and undershoots, (5) incorporation of regional climatological variability in shortwave penetration, (6) neutral physics parameterization for representation of the pathways of tracer transport, (7) staggered time stepping for tracer conservation and numerical efficiency, (8) anisotropic horizontal viscosities for representation of equatorial currents, (9) parameterization of exchange with marginal seas, (10) incorporation of a free surface that accommodates a dynamic ice model and wave propagation, (11) transport of water across the ocean free surface to eliminate unphysical «virtual tracer flux» methods, (12) parameterization of tidal mixing on continental shelves.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Reduced water wastage by 50 % by installing automatic valves that sensed when water was being wasted in the grounds areas and cut off supply automatically • Increased supplies inventory efficiency by 78 % by suggesting an «alert» to be placed when running low • Revamped the cleaning system by introducing state - of - the - art cleaning equipment that decreased entire building cleaning time by 60 % • Devised a chemical - free cleaning concoction used as the «cleaning product of choice» by the company owing to its no harmful effects

Shane Kenny, founder of the subscription air filter company FilterSnap, recommends using the beginning of the year as a time to take care of many routine home maintenance tasks, such as changing the batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, vacuuming the refrigerator coils and checking its seals to improve efficiency and changing refrigerator water filters and furnace air filters.