Sentences with phrase «water costing several»

With bottles of water costing several dollars apiece and multiple family members hankering for a drink, the cost of water mounts pretty fast.

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Myriota has successfully deployed several low cost satellite water tank monitors.

The link actually explains several ways to make your toilet use less water, some of which cost money, but anything that displaces water in the tank will reduce the amount of water your toilet uses by the volume of the item.

We used less water in 2007 than in 2006 because of changes in the number of people living in our home (1 adult was replaced by one infant) But, for grins, and because we had changes in people and fixed several plumbing leaks in 2007, I'll go ahead and include a cost for water.

Because of the costs involved, only the smaller North Aral has been earmarked for rescue (New Scientist print edition, 4 January 2003), and several dams to stem water loss from it have been build since the mid-1990s.

Recently, the water utility sued several farm - dense Iowa counties upriver from the city to recoup its denitrification costs.

In the meantime we are buying organic maize, nixtamalizing it (soaking it in woodash and water for several days) before feeding, to increase the minerals available, for no extra cost.

A new initiative launched by several UN-Water Members under the UN-Water umbrella is looking into how to best support Member States to develop water - related monitoring systems for sustainable development that are technically feasible, flexible, adaptable and cost - effective.

While the real effect is not expected to be fully felt for several months, the costs on our air, our water, and the health of our planet and our families are already mounting.

A few more projects are expected to be completed in 2014 - 16; however, several other announced projectes have since been cancelled or suspended because of a number of challenges such as environmental impacts on desert wildlife and water resources, cost - competitiveness, and delays in transmission development.

There are several low - cost, low - tech devices that anyone can use, such as an integral passive solar water heater which is basically a tank in a box.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

Increased costs can be expected from several sources including disruptions caused by thawing of permafrost and reduced transportation capabilities across frozen ground and water.

Sustainability engineer Pablo Päster's work has appeared on TreeHugger several times before; his eye - opening analyses of bottled water, local food and old vs. new cars offer a thoughtful, thorough look at the true environmental costs of things many of

A typical 2,000 - square - foot home, for example, will cost a homeowner in Nova Scotia $ 250 / month in water, heating, and electricity bills (and sometimes several times more depending on provincial rates, type of heating and existing systems).

These systems, also known as energy management systems, have become commonplace in all sizes of commercial buildings over the past several years because they help curb costs related to heating and cooling, lighting and even water consumption.