Sentences with phrase «water environment which»

The company uses a block of ice in its marketing to high - end chefs and restaurants to emphasise the high quality of the kingfish it farms near Port Lincoln, and the cold - water environment which they claim makes it so much tastier than kingfish coming out of warmer waters elsewhere.

Not exact matches

One area experiencing a boom is hydroponic farming, in which plants are grown in water rather than soil, often in a controlled environment.

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

The heavy handedness, with which Alberta Environment and Parks are handling the water access issue, is going to cause untold unnecessary damage to Alberta's livestock industry.

Catholic clergy and laity seem to accept the use of microphones at Mass without question as something good, or at least as an inevitable feature of the electronic environment in which we all now live and move, as fish swim in water.

For humans to be healthy they must be able to breathe fresh air, drink clean water, eat adequate food, and live in an environment not too different from that in which they became human.

An organic farm strives to protect our environment by building and maintaining healthy soil which, in turn, improves water and air quality.

Filling our bodies with acidic water is giving us an environment in which diseases love to live in.

A production line for the ultra-filtration of whey was also installed to separate proteins for refined whey products (whey protein additives for the food industry) and also a filter for reversed osmosis treatment of the permeate from ultra-filtration to concentrate the liquid for production of animal feed, which is sold as a by product (the cleaned water can then be disposed of in waste water systems and discharged to the environment).

We've reduced Australian growers» reliance on insecticides and improved their water use efficiency, which benefits the growers» bottom line and is good news for the environment and for rural communities.

Supported by the Environment Agency, this will ensure an early delivery of new tighter discharge standards, which are required by the Water Framework Directive.

FrieslandCampina added that it is aware of how dairy production affects the environment and has a multidisciplinary sustainability strategy, route2020, which aims to achieve climate - neutral growth by reducing the use of scarce materials (e.g. water, raw materials, and fossil fuels).

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And they have a low water footprint, are nitrogen - fixing, and give all sorts of good stuff back to the soil in which they're grown, meaning they're good for the environment (pulses are basically the future of sustainable agriculture).

«The rising costs of energy, human - induced environment and land degradation, water scarcity, and extreme weather events all present challenges, some of which have been on the agenda for decades, others of which are new,» said Task Force co-Chair Dan Glickman.

There are some who argue that because cloth diapers have to be washed, they are wasting water and electricity, which makes them just as bad for the environment.

Water births can offer a calmer and more private environment for giving birth; the birthing pool can be a quiet place and you can request to have the lights dimmed, which will make it seem more relaxing.

Yeast can not survive in the pH environment that is created by the vinegar, which is why making a paste of baking soda in water and swabbing the baby's mouth at least four times a day may also be beneficial.

I use cloth diapers partly to limit my impact on the environment, which means using less water too.

There are no chemicals that are hard on baby's bottom and better on the environment than cloth diapers which use up lots of energy and water to clean.

Examples of actions which have had these effects include school nutrition standards in Queensland, Australia; a vending machine ban in France; a front - of - package symbol that led to product reformulation in the Netherlands; soda taxes in France and Mexico; a programme targeting retail environments in New York City, USA; a programme promoting increased water consumption in schools in Hungary; school fruit and vegetable programmes in Netherlands and Norway; a healthy marketing campaign in Los Angeles County, USA and a comprehensive nutrition and health programme in France.

Groups such as Boston - based Corporate Accountability International, a non-profit which originated in the protests against Nestle's infant formula, have alleged for almost a decade that bottled water makers damage the environment when they extract the water, waste resources on bottles and shipping, and take what should be a common good.

The Committee, which is chaired by the Minister for Planning, Prof. Gyan Baffuor, has the Ministers for Trade and Industry; Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Finance; Food and Agriculture; Attorney General; Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation; Monitoring and Evaluation; Education; Health; Sanitation and Water Resources; Local Government and Rural Development; Gender, Children and Social Protection; Employment and Labour Relations; and Fisheries and Aquaculture as members.

The scheme is being developed in collaboration with the Association of British Insurers (ABI), Ministers, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Cabinet Office (CO), via the Water Bill 2014, which received Royal Assent in May 2014

The increase and improvement of such facilities consisting of the following projects: (i) Waste Water Treatment Plant disinfection system at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,200,000; (ii) baseline Waste Water Treatment Plant projects at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,300,000; and (iii) inflow / infiltration pilot project and reduction program improvements at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,000,000; all as more fully described in the report and estimate of cost prepared by the County Engineers (Erie County Department of Environment and Planning) which has been filed with the County Legislature and which has been approved by the Board of Managers of said District on June 21, 2016 (the «Report»).

Half a million gallons of water may be a drop in the bucket of an ocean environment, but it's a tripling in size for the Salt Lake City - area aquarium, which moves to a new and greatly expanded home in a southern suburb.

This finding provides new insight into the evolutionary origins of the DNA - packing process and the secret to archaea's hardiness, which enables some to live in acid, boiling water or other extreme environments.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

If modified plants escape into the natural environment, they could contaminate water supplies, irreversibly alter wild species, or even enter the human food chain, which nearly happened in 2002.

«This correlation tells us this is the same water and that this is what's causing the melting of the glacier, which could influence sea level rise,» said Muenchow, an associate professor of oceanography in UD's School of Marine Science and Policy, which is housed in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

«The consequences are both an altered hydrologic regime — which has implications for farming, urban water use and the environment — as well as degradation of streamwater quality,» he says.

One possibility could be related to dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria found upstream in the catchment, which might be releasing toxins similar to those that cause red tides in marine environments, says Peter Ashton, a water resources specialist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa and the University of Pretoria.

Ecosystems provide the most basic provisioning services — food, firewood, and medicines — along with the so - called regulating services of a fully functional environment, which include cleaning the air, purifying water, controlling floods and erosion, storing carbon, and detoxifying pollutants in soils.

The results of their model and risk analysis, which appear in the Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, provide a snapshot of green infrastructure performance for this particular green roof.

However, unlike the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels — which emit greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere and pollute the environment — the product of hydrogen combustion is clean water.

As the waters rose, residents blamed the Environment Agency and its chief, Chris Smith, for failing to dredge rivers, which would let water escape.

Also, desirable native plants that live under water could be crowded out by crested floatingheart, which would create a hostile environment for native aquatic animals.

Van Oppen can precisely control each tank's salinity, temperature, water quality and pH, which allows her to select for individuals that can withstand stressful environments.

Just as wind and water swirl freely around in their fluid environments, feng shui — which means «wind» and «water» — aims to create environments in which positive energy (Chi) can also flow freely without obstruction.

Knowing that the clays could be produced later in locations with surface water can help researchers pin down the best areas at which to look for once habitable environments, he says.

Measurements of the space environment round it show that the water flowing out from the comet's nucleus forms a prominent atmosphere which interacts with the constant flow of ionised particles from the sun, the so - called solar wind.

It is clear, however, that volatile anesthetics, which are more soluble in lipids than in water, primarily affect the function of ion channel and neurotransmitter receptor proteins in the membranes of nerve cells, which are lipid environments.

Examining roots is important as they serve as the major interface between a plant and its soil environment, and are responsible for water and nutrient uptake — both resources which are critical for a plant's survival,» said Asst Prof Xu, who is also from the Centre for BioImaging Sciences at NUS.

At the base of the mountain, there are signatures of clays and sulfate salts, which are both known to form in water, and are both key classes of minerals that will reveal clues about the environment on Mars, Sumner said.

Maria T. Brandl and her colleagues focused on protozoa known as Tetrahymena after finding copious quantities of these renowned bacteria eaters in water from a California field — an environment in which pathogens, such as Salmonella, might be shed by livestock.

India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the country should expand its nuclear energy program mainly by using its indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors, of which the country now has 18 installed.

«If future research confirms that an index of species» abundance can be derived from naked DNA extracted from water,» says Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment, «it could easily improve the rationality with which fish quotas are set, and the quality and reliability of their monitoring around the world.»

In addition to the radiometric dating techniques that revealed the ages of these ancient zircons, geologists used other analytical techniques to extract information about the environment in which the crystals formed, including the temperature and whether water was present.

One of the conditions which applies is that imported fish should not be released into the natural aquatic environment but rather held in aquaria or «ornamental waters» in order to avoid any risk of introducing diseases to our farmed and wild fish stocks — or to frogs.