Sentences with phrase «use tons of water»

Old fashioned washing machines are best for washing diapers, but they use tons of water.

A recent Ceres research paper found that a lot of hydraulic fracturing — a process that uses tons of water — is taking place in water - scarce regions, with nearly 47 % of wells located in highly - stressed water basins, including 92 % of wells in Colorado and 51 % of wells in Texas.

Now lets talk about the environmental aspect the fracturing method uses tons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to consolidate and force the oil / gas to channels where it can be extracted.

Not exact matches

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

Among the items on display are a restored 115 - ton Corliss steam engine that was once used to pump 8 million gallons of water a day, a 13 - ton, 20 - foot - tall Nasmyth steam hammer, and the Scalamandre «White House» loom that made fabric for every White House presidency from Hoover to Clinton.

This water is stored for use, saving roughly 1,400 tons of CO2 each year, the company says.

I always add a wedge to my water, and use them in a ton of recipes.

There's no value at all from using enormous land and water resources and warming the planet in order to produce a billion tons of food that ultimately don't get eaten — particularly when one in nine people is malnourished in the world.

There's diapers in landfills (or gallons of water used to launder cloth ones), plus the ten tons of plastic crap stuff that clutters our home before it pollutes our environment.

According to Rocket News 24's Meg Murphy, the urinals were installed at Shaanxi Normal University, where they were painted pink and adorned with giant signs asking the women to use the urinals instead of the stalls if possible, because it can save up to 160 tons of water a day.

On top of this, millions of tons of untreated waste from the used diapers are added to our landfills as well, along with potentially - toxic chemicals that can find their way into our ground water tables.

When I had my twins many people told me that breastfeeding would be hard which I didn't want to accept, after reading a lot about breastfeeding, the best tips I got was to drink tons of water, to use a lactation tea, my favorite is Healthy Nursing by secrets of tea, also avoiding stress is a good tips and of course eating healthy is one of the keys to successful breastfeeding

Finally, after flushing the toilets all day with pool water and using tons of hand sanitizer, the water came back and we were able to fill the tub.

Our process uses significantly less water and energy than established processes, resulting in larger yields per ton of biomass.

The cellulosic ethanol process we developed was unique because it did not require multiple processing steps and the use of expensive laboratory - modified enzymes, the ethanol bioprocessing system uses significantly less water and energy in ethanol production resulting in larger yields per ton of biomass.

LZ would have a 10 - ton liquid xenon target, which will fit inside the same 72,000 - gallon tank of pure water used by LUX.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

There used to not be such a thing as indoors, maybe the cave was indoors, but now we have ability to hide ourselves from the outdoor environment which is good if there's a bad storm, but otherwise we wan na be out there where we're getting tons of negative ions out there when you're talking about being around water or sources of trees, you're gonna get exposed to these phytoncides, these aromatic compounds in nature.

The one unfortunate side effect to using the stunning supplement is that you can gain a ton of water weight, so using an anti-estrogen substance alongside the steroid will help reduce that water weight, which in turn will give you a more ripped look.

That's why I use Social Hookups - It lets me meet a ton of women at once without really having to try, so I can test a few different waters to see which fits my life the best.

During the winter, there are tons of ways to keep water from freezing, like using heated water bowls and shielding the bowls from wind.

The U.S. armed services used 243,135 horses and mules during the war to transport supply wagons, ambulances, traveling kitchens, water carts, food, engineer equipment, light artillery, and tons of shells.

All rooms offer a dressing area with a vast closet and tons of shelf and drawer space, fast and free wifi, Complimentary bottled water, floor - to - ceiling windows... MORE that you can actually open for fresh air, and unlimited use of the hotel's excellent private health club.

Consisting of a metric ton of water sunk into the floor of Frieze, filled with spray paint and items ranging from a wineglass and belt to spring onions and plastic rings, it's an eye - catching example of the way in which the artist uses «the detritus of everyday consumerism» in her work.

Manufacturing just five wind turbines produces 1 ton of radioactive residue and 75 tons of toxic, acidic water used to leach out the required neodymium.

That might sound expensive, but the average American family spends $ 300 on toilet paper every year, their portion of the 3 million tons of the stuff that is made every year from 54 million trees using 473 billion gallons of water and 17.3 terawatts of electricity.

According to experts, the Jakobshavn glacier, one of Greenland's largest, is moving at a faster rate than ever before, losing 20 million tons of ice every day, equivalent to the amount of water used every year by the residents of New York City.

Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, it is not surprising that 70 percent of world water use is devoted to irrigation.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

What I'm trying to say is that some aircrafts can fly with a cargo of 100 tons and instead of toxic and dangerous materials used for the spraying operations, they could be carrying pure Water, and they could (through a very simple mechanic system) be conducting the spraying operations producing real Clouds with some kind of particulate (benign) matter mixed with this same Water.

In the coming days to weeks, Planktos, a small California - based «ecorestoration» company, will use a 115 - foot (35 - meter) research ship to dump a hundred tons of iron dust into international waters some 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of the Galápagos Islands.

The Intex mine would use a process known as acid leaching to access the nickel ore, producing several million tons of toxic waste, contaminating the island's water resources and destroying the tropical forests.

Using the rule of thumb of 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, this would be enough to produce 160 million tons of grain.

A cursory list might include: pollution of air, water and soil from billions of tons of toxic waste; declining biological and cultural diversity from the harvesting of natural resources; regulations that merely limit the poisoning of people and the environment; production and use of materials so dangerous they will require constant, costly vigilance from future generations; prosperity measured by activity not legacy.

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Solar water heaters saved, in 2005, the consumption of almost 70 million barrels of oil and cut carbon emissions by 29,000,000 tons — not bad for a technology, so simple it can be built in a tool shop, that will celebrate its centennial next year, born in America yet now primarily used elsewhere.

Environmental costs of mining: loss due to water shortage (washing one ton of coal uses 4 to 5 cubic meters of water) and wastewater (for every ton of water produced, 2.5 tons of water is polluted); loss from land subsidence; land erosion and loss of ecosystems; coal gangue storage and treatment; air pollution from coal mining.

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There's a ton of water in that block, and we have no use for it.