Sentences with phrase «transport large amounts of water»

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Only repeated severe floods and rainstorms could have contributed the water energy required to transport the enormous amounts of large boulders and gravel of the megafan during this short time span.

We know that current technologies, which use large amounts of clean water to transport small amounts of excreta through expensive pipes to costly treatment plants, are unworkable and unaffordable in much of the world.

The state's water and wastewater utilities consume large amounts of electricity to pump, treat, transport, and deliver water — and their energy requirements are expected to keep growing as California responds to increasingly severe drought.