Sentences with phrase «water industry consumes»
This — combined with the energy used to refrigerate and haul the bottled water in trucks, sometimes over hundreds of miles — means the U.S. bottled water industry consumes roughly 50 million barrels of oil per year, equal to 13 percent of U.S. oil imports from Saudi Arabia.
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As the US gears up to introduce guidance about what is a safe level of dioxins for Americans to be consuming, the livestock and food industries are campaigning to see them watered down.
The industry is also highlighting the importance of good dental hygiene, including regular brushing and drinking water after consuming sweet and acidic food and beverages.
(A) Changes in the proportion of energy consumed as SSBs plus 100 % juice by children aged 2 — 18 y. (B) Per capita changes in the amount of sugars (grams per day) that were contributed by water - based beverages and sugar - sweetened carbonated soft drinks from 1997 to 2011 according to industry sources (27).
It predicted that Arizona's population would grow by 50 percent over the next two decades and that the state's residents and industries would need at least 19 percent more water than they consume today.
Perhaps, before his voice was trumpeted on broadcast news, blaming the ESA and the USAE for Atlanta's water crisis, the Governor's staff did not have means to discover the several water - consuming, job - producing industries on the Chattahoochee River, downstream from Atlanta.
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 mgd.