Sentences with phrase «using underground water»

We use underground water which is filtered and sanitised through sophisticated and approved systems.

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The country's water loss is now below 10 % due to the use of algorithms that predict where leaks will occur, underground pipe repair tools, and a sonar - like system that pinpoints the locations of tiny leaks that have the potential to grow larger.

THAI foregoes steam (and therefore water use) altogether, instead liquefying the bitumen with an underground «fire front.»

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

Risser says that in the western Plains states, the underground water supplies are being used ten times more quickly than they can be replenished.

Parker says the bottled water industry uses 650 million litres of underground water a year, just 0.001 per cent of Australia's national supply, «a pretty small drop in the proverbial bucket».

Fracking, as the technique is known, is the use of chemical - laced water injected deep underground to create fissures in underground rock formations and release natural gas and oil.

Over 20 years, that 10 percent increase would add up to $ 44 million in new money — enough to replace about 33 miles of underground water pipes, according to the same calculation the mayor used in her request to Cuomo.

The Cuomo administration is expected to decide shortly on whether drillers can begin using the controversial technique, which uses high volumes of water mixed with a small amount of chemicals to free natural gas from underground rock formations.

It would be banned inside New York City's sprawling upstate watershed, as well as inside a watershed used by Syracuse, and in underground water sources used by other cities and towns.

The process uses a cocktail of chemicals and water to access potentially lucrative natural gas underground.

Use of injection wells - sending the flowback water back thousands of feet underground away from aquifers - has been common in more developed shale formations in the South and West.

The treated water, which exceeds state and federal heath standards, is being used to recharge the underground aquifer that feeds the taps of more than 2.3 million residents of the region.

Researchers previously used MRO's Shallow Radar (SHARAD) to map extensive underground water - ice sheets in middle latitudes of Mars and estimate that the top of the ice is less than about 10 yards beneath the ground surface.

Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.

Many scientific instruments rely on the ability to detect photons one at a time, from the huge tanks of water built deep underground to detect neutrinos from the Sun to the fluorescence detectors used in biological research.

Water injection used in fracking to break up underground, porous rock formations can increase underground pressures, lubricate faults and cause earthquakes — a process known as injection - induced seismicity, the USGS said in a joint statement with the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

GPS signals don't penetrate very deeply or at all in water, soil or building walls, and therefore, can't be used by submarines or in underground activities such as surveying mines.

A team of researchers studying water quality around hydraulic fracturing, the process used to extract gas from rock deep underground, have found a blueprint to move those conversations forward.

To fulfill high production demands, water is drawn from underground reservoirs (aquifers) in the northern provinces and used for irrigation more rapidly than it is replenished.

After geothermal power plants pump up a hot brine — water and dissolved salts from underground — and use its heat to make steam to spin a turbine and generate electricity, Simbol would borrow the still warm fluid for roughly 90 minutes.

For example, when there is no oxygen (a likely scenario in underground disposal vaults) to help these bacteria «breath» and break down the ISA, these simple single - cell microorganisms are able to switch their metabolism to breath using other chemicals in the water, such as nitrate or iron.

The trouble is that its two design options are a 200,000 - tonne underground water tank built by expanding the Homestake mine in South Dakota to form an enormous cavern 100 metres tall and 65 metres wide, or a smaller but still massive detector using 34,000 tonnes of liquid argon.

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.

In some areas, boreholes that tap underground aquifers can augment water availability; in others, rivers and seasonal surface runoff can be used for irrigation.

In particular, concerns that the hydraulic fracturing process (called «fracking») used to capture natural gas could pose a threat to the environment and public health if chemicals used in the operation contaminate underground drinking water.

An alternative is to push water underground using recharge ponds or injection wells.

The process mixes water with sand and chemicals, then uses the pressurized concoction to rip open rocks underground and liberate natural gas.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

Fracking, which injects liquids underground at high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from hard to reach places, can contaminate water (SN Online: 10/12/15) and air, due to chemicals used in the process.

Pumping out this water has changed the courses of underground streams, so previously clean water now flows through arsenic - laden sediments, and wells that used to be pure in villages once healthy suddenly pump out death.

«Parched West is using up underground water: Study points to grave implications for Western U.S. water supply.»

To improve models for drilling, hydraulic fracturing and underground storage of carbon dioxide, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists used neutrons to understand how water flows through fractured rock.

MONGOLIA Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2: Plans, Issues and Risks An Overview of Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2 Mining Plans and some of the issues and risks associated with block cave underground mining, international metal price uncertainty, project power supply, and impacts on water resources used by herders.

It uses a variety of tools including VERITAS, AUGER and COUPP — dedicated telescopes, water tanks and underground «bubble chambers» — to observe known particles and to search for those that are so far only hypothetical, such as the dark - matter WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles).

With hazel was used by the Native Americans to find underground water sources.

The Mohegan natives were also believed to show English settlers how to use Y - shaped witch hazel sticks for «dowsing,» an ancient method for finding underground water.

If all the water used to irrigate the crops fell from the sky as rain or was taken from rivers or underground sources in sustainable amounts we'd be in good shape, but sadly and increasingly, that is not the case.

If all the water used to irrigate the crops fell from the sky as rain or was taken from rivers or underground sources in sustainable amounts we'd be in good shape, but sadly and increasingly, that is not the case (see sidebar for more on this).

Persia used a qanat system of irrigation which is essentially a gently sloping system of channels, situated underground, used to divert water from aquifers as needed.

Ecofriendly aspects and cutting edge technology are a trademark of this property, from the recycled roofing materials, led lighting throughout the house and garden, rain water collected in underground tanks and used for irrigation, insulated sliding doors and solar water heaters, the owners have been mindful of the environment.

This excursion will teach you about traditional Mayan culture, uses of these underground rivers, and have you experiencing the fresh water and stunning landscape.

The Nusa Penida Renewable Energy provide cheap electricity for the inhabitants of Nusa Penida Island and the windmill is also used to pump up the underground water which is located 200 meter under the hill, providing cheap healthy water for the community.

The lots all have underground power, city water and will be included in the HOA of the new lots we are getting ready to start developing on the North side of Placencia Caye and will have access to all the associated amenities, like 24 hour shuttle boat, use of development golf carts on the mainland, large community pool, bar, workout room and security.

Yucatán has few surface rivers and most Maya cities, including Chichén Itzá, used cenotes to access underground water.

Walk through ancient Maya cities such as Tikal, canoe the Macal River and through an underground water cave system used for Maya ritual burials, horseback ride or mountain bike through rich ecosystems, search for wildlife among pristine rainforest and enjoy the solitude of a jungle riverside landscape.

By running the irrigation lines with built - in reverse osmosis membranes underground, the proposed irrigation system would use the pressure gradient supplied by the plants» roots to desalinize the water without the high amount of energy consumption usually associated with desalination.

Tshe idea of using an aquifer (underground water «lake») is foolhardy because real estate subdivisions, condominiums, et al, may (will?)

The heat used to boil water can come from burning of a fuel, from nuclear reactions, or directly from the sun or geothermal heat sources underground.

I have always created spaces and places from childhood of tree houses and root cellar uses to leaving home during high school and living underground in hill top water reservoir.