Sentences with phrase «using millions of gallons of water»

With all the promotion of NG, we're only now beginning to hear about the dark downside of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» — using millions of gallons of water mixed with undisclosed chemicals and sand to release natural gas.

Sacramento recently passed a pretty extensive Sustainability Master Plan, and many locals are wondering how allowing a bottled water company to come in and use millions of gallons of water for bottled water fits into that plan.

The process can use millions of gallons of water per extraction well and is known to leak chemicals into surrounding aquifers.

Not exact matches

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.

For instance, the Brentwood, Maryland, company recycled only a fraction of the millions of gallons of water it uses.

Oscar Mayer has long been the largest customer of the Madison Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux said.

In the last year, we reduced our water use by literally millions of gallons in our Florida facility alone.»

Considering the fact that dairy farms use approximately 3.4 million gallons of water every single day, this is an industry that needs to be completely transformed.

The city's water system has a stated capacity of 8 million gallons a day, but is currently using only about 3.5 million.

The researchers estimate that a fully populated 20 x 20 foot mussel raft similar to the one used in this study would clean an average of three million gallons of water and remove about 350 pounds of particulate matter, like dust and soot, daily.

The report added that «a biorefinery that produces 100 million gallons of ethanol per year, for example, would use the equivalent of the water supply for a town of about 5,000 people.»

South Bend, Ind., avoided $ 120 million in upgrades and conserved millions of gallons of water by becoming one of the first cities on the globe to use cloud computing to manage its water systems.

One new feature, for example, is a 2.8 - million - liter (750,000 - gallon) water tank on top of the containment vessel surrounding the core that would use gravity in the case of emergency to send water flowing over the core, cooling it to prevent a meltdown.

The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.

Instead of pumping millions of gallons of water and fracturing fluid into the earth, the company GasFrac used a liquefied petroleum gas gel — propane gas compressed into a thick fluid — to break up the rock.

Perhaps most surprisingly, the researchers discovered that at least 2,350 wells less than one mile deep had been fracked using more than 1 million gallons of water each.

For example, Arkansas had more than 300 wells fracked shallower than 3,000 feet, using an average of 5 million gallons of water and chemicals.

More than two million gallons of water and three million pounds of sand are used per well, according to North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources.

Originally the mighty aqueduct was part of a 30 - mile waterway, used to transport 4.4 million gallons of water from the River Eure to Nîmes every day.

With many more than 11 farms, and the 11th largest using 500 million, even if the ten larger were much more efficient and only used the 500 million number (not likely, but I do not have access to the exact amounts), then the top 11 farms would use 5.5 billion gallons of water annually.

And they were told by the owner that they use over 500 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER ANNUALLY!!!!

500 million gallons per year is a tiny fraction of Californian water use (something like 80 billion cubic metres per year; 500 million gallons is about 2 million cubic metres).

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.

Apple's water use keeps going up; «In fiscal year 2016, Apple used 630 million gallons of water, up 10 percent from the previous year.

In addition to generating verified carbon offset credits, these practices also resulted in reduced energy consumption and the reduced use of millions of gallons of water, a critical resource in both regions.

Pixley Biogas reclaims and processes approximately 90 million gallons of water used at the Calgren facility to produce a nutrient - rich liquid that is suitable for crop irrigation.

Requiring about 5 million gallons of fluid (mostly water) per well, it's clear that the water intensity of Marcellus Shale gas is more significant than first thought and likely compels more oversight of the oil and gas industry and its water use.

The new facility saves 127 million gallons of water annually, or 18 percent of the entire campus» potable water use.

Millions of gallons of pressurized water, sand, and chemicals are then used to create fissures in the rock and release oil, which is pumped out.

Every gallon of used motor oil that is improperly discarded can contaminate 1 million gallons of drinking water, according to the EPA.

Hydrogeologist David Yoxtheimer of Penn State's Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research gives the withdrawals more context: Of the 9.5 billion gallons of water used daily in Pennsylvania, natural gas development consumes 1.9 million gallons a day (mgd); livestock use 62 mgd; mining, 96 mgd; and industry, 770 mgof Penn State's Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research gives the withdrawals more context: Of the 9.5 billion gallons of water used daily in Pennsylvania, natural gas development consumes 1.9 million gallons a day (mgd); livestock use 62 mgd; mining, 96 mgd; and industry, 770 mgOf the 9.5 billion gallons of water used daily in Pennsylvania, natural gas development consumes 1.9 million gallons a day (mgd); livestock use 62 mgd; mining, 96 mgd; and industry, 770 mgof water used daily in Pennsylvania, natural gas development consumes 1.9 million gallons a day (mgd); livestock use 62 mgd; mining, 96 mgd; and industry, 770 mgd.

For example, a 525 megawatt cogeneration unit at a refinery might require 6 million gallons per day (MGD) of water intake, while a similar 525 megawatt coal - fired boiler could use more than 14 MGD.

On a global scale, the biofuels frenzy is diverting millions of acres of farmland from food crops, converting millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other biofuels.

There is no question that hydraulic fracturing uses a lot of water: It can take up to 7 million gallons to frack a single well, and at least 30 percent of that water is lost forever, after being trapped deep in the shale.

Fracking is known to use millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive wastewater, which has polluted drinking water.

Just consider the amount of water used in hydraulic fracturing: roughly four million to six million gallons per oil or gas well.

Estimated carbon savings are calculated using the estimated kilowatt hours («kWh»), gallons of fuel oil, million British thermal units («MMBtus») of natural gas and gallons of water saved as appropriate, for each project.

The agency noted that 5 million gallons of water is equivalent to the water used by approximately 50,000 people for one day.

Each time a well is fracked, between 2 million and 8 million gallons of fresh water is used.

Its construction would require a drilling method called Hydraulic Directional Drilling, which uses millions of gallons of bentonite slick water, typically laced with diesel fuel, to drill longitudinally under rivers and other structures.

We consume 70 million restaurant meals a day at almost one million restaurants across the country, with each establishment churning out 50,000 pounds of waste, and using around 300,000 gallons of water every year.

The process uses a huge amount of water — the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation estimates as much as 1 million gallons per well — at a time when water is already a limiting and precious resource.

The world's largest swimming pool is located at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile; it's 3,274 feet long, holds 66 million gallons of water, and uses a sophisticated computer - controlled filtration system to bring in fresh ocean water from the Pacific and circulate it throughout the pool.