Sentences with phrase «volumes of water»

In addition, wastewater treatment is becoming a larger concern in areas of the country where drilling for shale gas requires the use and disposal of massive volumes of water.

Sewer backup damage occurs when the sanitary and storm sewer systems can not handle high volumes of water, which causes water to back up into your home through toilets and drains.

The most obvious source of large volumes of water is the sea.

Mr. Fox is preparing a sequel to «Gasland,» which has contributed to widespread concern about fracking, a method of mining that uses large volumes of water and chemicals under high pressure to free gas deposits from underground shale.

Dry catchments need to soak up large volumes of water before substantial runoff occurs, and some soils can be become hydrophobic, resisting infiltration of rainfall.

Both mining and in situ operations use large volumes of water for their extraction process, between 2 and 4.5 volume units of water is used for the extraction of one volume unit bitumen (National Energy Board 2006).

Photovoltaic systems use conducting material to convert sunlight directly to electricity and need only nominal amounts of water to wash their solar panels, compared with the traditional steam - turbine solar that uses much larger volumes of water for cooling towers.

CNN: «Atmospheric rivers», airborne corridors of concentrated moisture which carry huge volumes of water, are set to get wider and longer, causing more frequent and catastrophic floods as the atmosphere warms.

Solar power stations using photovoltaic panels without concentration of sun - light require little water; those that concentrate sun - light and solar - thermal power stations require substantial volumes of water for cooling.

This is the same process of liquid water in the ocean, which when heated expands and becomes lighter and so rises and colder volumes of water around it will sink beneath — in the ocean this is called currents, movements of volumes of water through differential heating.

Wind farms displace fossil fuel power stations that often use huge volumes of water for cooling.

Has anyone bothered to analyse the impact the ever increasing amount of pastoral irrigation going on and how spraying vast volumes of water into the sky might just correlate with an increase in temperature?

The heat warms the air and evaporates large volumes of water.

CONS: use has decreased over years, can hold large volumes of water if there is a water leak, fibers can lodge in the lungs, eyes, and skin if protective gear isn't used, very high energy use to create, some manufacturers add 5 % phenolformaldehyde.

They are limited only by the amount of water the glaciers themselves release — ice masses that hold volumes of water often measured in cubic kilometers.

In addition, glacial melt from mountain systems, Greenland and Antarctica is contributing ever - increasing volumes of water to the global ocean, forcing on the waters» rise at ever - increasing rates.

The production of commercial quantities of gas from this shale requires large volumes of water to drill and hydraulically fracture the rock.

It also shows the area required for pumped hydro reservoirs and number of Sydney harbour volumes of water you would have to pump up 150 m and store each night and release each day.

More abundant rainfall can lead to flash flooding, as large volumes of water runoff feeds into streams and rivers, causing them to overflow.

Now consider thermohaline currents, hugh volumes of water slowly circulating around the world's oceans.

Solar swimming pool heater systems usually use unglazed collectors because they circulate relatively large volumes of water through the collector and capture nearly 80 percent of the solar energy available.

«Global warming causes the snow - caps of the Himalayas to melt early and in bigger quantities, causing early and extra volumes of water to flow through the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers.

The pumps would need to pump 2.3 Sydney harbour volumes of water up 150 m in 6 hours, and release it to generate power to meet demand during 18 hours each day.

Their enormous volumes of water can not become acidic — that is, plummet from an 8.2 pH level 150 years ago and their current 8.1 pH into the acidic realm of 7.0 or lower, due to the tiny amount of atmospheric CO2 attributable to fossil fuel use, in less than five centuries.

Such floods are only constrained by the volumes of water and ice in the system.

Water professionals like myself measure large volumes of water in acre - feet.

Some of the pieces are easily identifiable as vessels and may allude to holding volumes of water.

The parking lot has been shifted so it is perpendicular to the ocean and the floodplain has been opened up, so that should a large rain event occur, the lagoon will be able to handle the heavy volumes of water that flow down Redwood Creek and out to the Pacific.

They also considered requiring exporters to ship the fish with such large volumes of water that it would have been cost - prohibitive.

Most cases of dog constipation treatment usually are usually rectified with the intake of large volumes of water and changes in the diet.

Glucose can pass through the body without being absorbed into the bloodstream and urine, where it draws large volumes of water with it.

FACT: Sewer backup damage occurs when the sanitary and storm sewer systems can not handle high volumes of water, which causes water to back up into your home through toilets and drains.

The new images are presented in false color, detailing an area that once played host to huge volumes of water, leaving scars across the Red Planet's surface.

New images taken by the ESA's Mars Express orbiter have provided a fresh look at a region believed to be hiding large volumes of water ice just beneath the surface.

For faster, longer - lasting water filters, some scientists are looking to graphene — thin, strong sheets of carbon — to serve as ultrathin membranes, filtering out contaminants to quickly purify high volumes of water.

They must have been produced by planet - wide alteration, presumably implying there must have been volumes of water.

That is because the movement of the Earth's crust can shift huge volumes of water, unleashing a parade of great and powerful waves.

This relatively sudden rise of normal sea level occurs when storm winds and tides combine to transport large volumes of water to coastal areas.

The report explains that along with natural gas, production wells in the Azle area of the NEGF can also bring to the surface significant volumes of water from the highly permeable Ellenburger Formation — both naturally occurring brine as well as fluids that were introduced during the fracking process.

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

Fracking involves injecting large volumes of water, sand and toxic chemicals underground with explosive force that fractures the rock and helps it release trapped hydrocarbons.

Conversely, Dr Wallis said that wide - scale planting of trees to store carbon — as is planned for in the Abbott Government's Direct Action Plan — could potentially consume massive volumes of water.

And, you know, their typical day is 115 degrees and humid, they've got no source of fresh water; so they desalinate volumes of water but that takes a lot of energy and a lot of the waste there is in terms of heat.

How it works: Electricity is used to pump huge volumes of water from a lower reservoir to an upper one.

Dynamic pressure drops happen whenever there is a sudden change in velocity, for example when there are valve or pump failures, or sudden demands on the system, such as when large volumes of water are required for fighting a fire.

He notes that of the nearly 4,000 papers published on microbial fuel cells, less than 2 percent report on processing volumes of water larger than one liter.

As they strike, their mouths fill with huge volumes of water, including lots of krill.

Rather, the culprit is typically wastewater disposal, where high volumes of water extracted in oil and gas operations is reinjected into deep basement rocks, where the bigger and more dangerous faults lie.

The state's final ban is on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, which uses large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals to create fractures in rock that release gas.

The process involves injecting large volumes of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, deep into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas.