Sentences with phrase «water production amounts»

Interpretative displays of energy and water conservation features — electricity and water production amounts posted in lobby

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«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

On the other hand, almost all smallholder cocoa is grown without irrigation in high - rainfall areas, so the water used in production of the cocoa is close to zero (apart from a small amount of water used in processing).

Scientific research increasingly demonstrates that large - scale intensive meat production uses disproportionate amounts of land, water, and feed, adds markedly to climate change and is a factor in water pollution and food contamination.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

New figures released by FDF show that these food and drink manufacturers have significantly reduced the amount of water used in the production of -LSB-...]

Over the past year, we have reduced the amount of water required to produce each bottle of our Almondmilk by 16 % through efficient production planning.

The trees use minimal amounts of water and fuel, especially compared to sugar cane production, and produce for about 20 years.

Recent research suggests that a «one - size - fits - all» prescriptive advice to drinking is outdated because sweat water losses are dynamic and dependent on the intensity of exercise (higher metabolic rate, more sweating, more water loss); the ambient temperature (the hotter the conditions, the greater the amount of evaporative sweat production); and body size (bigger the mass, more evaporative sweat needed to cool the body).

She believes the amount of water and other resources involved in that process pales in comparison to the energy consumed in the production and distribution of disposable diapers.

There is a huge amount of waste associated with disposable diapers both in terms of their production (the water, raw materials, energy, etc. that go in to making them) and where they end up.

The amount of water pumped into fracking wells is the No. 1 factor related to earthquake occurrence at Fox Creek, a large oil and gas production site in central Canada, researchers...

Two recent reports noted that corn - based ethanol production is upping food prices and consuming worrisome amounts of water.

Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.

A report by the US Government Accountability Office has revealed that the sole US production facility leaks large amounts of tritium into cooling water.

Need for strong public outreach Agricultural production accounts for the greatest amount of global water consumption, and in this sector the authors suggest a variety of efficiency proposals such as improved irrigation systems and switching to crop varieties that consume less water.

Greenland's ice sheet melts and sends large amounts of fresh water into the coastal waters, where it is of major importance for local production but potentially also for global ocean currents.

«Dairies vary widely in the amount of water used to cool cows,» explained lead investigator Jennifer M. Chen, of the Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, but using more water results in diminishing returns and minimizing water use is a sustainability concern for US dairy production.

Hydraulic fracturing processes, similar to those used in oil and gas production, also have been used in enhanced geothermal systems, but those processes have drawbacks due to the amount of water required, the potential toxicity of the chemicals used and the high costs of retrieving and treating the water.

The production of food through agriculture uses 80 % of the available water supply in the U.S., meaning that uneaten food leads to a significant amount of wasted water.

Finding weak versions of SHATTERPROOF and inserting them into rapeseed might increase the production of crop per hectare, making the land more productive and reducing the amount of water, pesticides and fertilizer a farmer needs, says Yanofsky.

Experts have labelled this as «virtual water»: the amount of water that is embedded in food or other products needed for its production.

Dehydration, then, slows down gastric emptying and perhaps worse, leaves an insufficient amount of water for glycogen production (in case you didn't know, glycogen is three parts water), so the entire digestive process is disturbed.

The production of red meat, for example, requires large amounts of water and livestock feed, and produces liberal amounts of methane.

When you buy secondhand, you may not know the production story or 100 % love the materials used, but you do know that you are saving gallons of water, a significant amount of energy, and keeping a perfectly good piece of fashion out of the landfill.

Growing coconut trees requires minimal amounts of water and fuel (especially compared to sugar cane production); and the trees produce sap for two to four decades.

Larger amounts of fluoride, which most people do consume from tap water, disrupt the whole endocrine system and wreak havoc on hormone production.

Meat production involves horrific amounts of water, land, energy, and pollution, compared to plant foods.

it's only to point that i recently read on a book that defends Dukan's diet wrote by a MD that happens to have only one kidney since he was a child, and he links the occurence of kidney stones in those children of the early ketogenic studies to the prevailing idea of water in those days, ie, that water should be consumed in small amounts because it was thougth to provoque interferences with ketonic bodies production, and that was though to lessen their positive effects

The paper production process requires large amounts of energy and water, plus it unleashes many toxic gases into the atmosphere.

It takes about 1.39 liters of water to make 1 liter of bottled water, which means that a substantial amount of H2O goes down the drain during production.

Since glucose attracts water, it promotes loss of bodily fluids into the urine, resulting in the production of a large amount of urine.

Owners should also monitor daily water intake, urine production, appetite, body weight, amount of insulin administered, and urine or blood glucose levels, depending upon how well - controlled a cat's blood glucose is.

Changes in water consumption, appetite, activity, loose stools, and amount of urine production are all very important to discuss with the doctor.

For example, you want to place paddies near water to increase food production, place your markets near high traffic roads to increase the amount of people, place your troop buildings near the capitol, etc..

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

Also, because water reservoirs are designed to be connected to a water source such as a river, these manmade dams receive high amounts of organic matter and sediment; thus, the continuing production of methane.

In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department of Natural Resources studied whether fracking — a method of oil and gas production that uses large amounts of chemical - and sand - laced water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits of fossil fuels.

Equally important to water - related risks confronted by the energy sector, the use of water for energy production can impact freshwater resources, affecting both their availability (the amount downstream) and quality (their physical and chemical properties).

water - use efficiency carbon gain in photosynthesis per unit water lost in evapotranspiration; can be expressed on a short - term basis as the ratio of photosynthetic carbon gain per unit transpirational water loss, or on a seasonal basis as the ratio of net primary production or agricultural yield to the amount of available water

It is an immensely large and complicated structure, relying on many resources to feed it: Rail network, roads, its own water (usually a dam) supply for steam production and cooling, regular maintenance and huge amount of manpower.

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It can be expressed on a short - term basis as the ratio of photosynthetic carbon gain per unit transpirational water loss, or on a seasonal basis as the ratio of net primary production or agricultural yield to the amount of available water.

Research on specific cities and products yield data like the following: in Hanoi, 80 % of fresh vegetables, 50 % of pork, poultry and fresh water fish, as well as 40 % of eggs, originate from urban and peri-urban areas (Nguyen Tien Dinh, 2000); in the urban and peri-urban area of Shanghai, 60 % of the city's vegetables, 100 % of the milk, 90 % of the eggs, and 50 % of the pork and poultry meat is produced (Cai Yi - Zhang and Zhang Zhangen in Bakker et al. 2000); in Java, home gardens provide for 18 % of caloric consumption and 14 % of proteins of the urban population (Ning Purnomohadi 2000); Dakar produces 60 % of the national vegetable consumption whilst urban poultry production amounts to 65 % of the national demand (Mbaye and Moustier 1999).

Existing projections suggest an increase in primary production at high latitudes such as the Arctic and the Southern Ocean (because the amount of sunlight available for photosynthesis of phytoplankton goes up as the amount of water covered by ice decreases).

The production of biofuels requires staggering amounts of fresh water, several times more than fossil - fuel energy production.

The amount of fresh water consumed for world energy production is on track to double within the next 25 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects.

As a result of changes in rainfall production, the amount of liquid water in the cloud may be modified, changing the amount of energy available for release as latent heat during freezing (Rosenfeld et al. 2008); these changes may potentially lead to significant alterations in storm vorticity strength (Tinsley et al. 2012).

A country's water footprint, as opposed to simple water use, is the total amount of H2O needed for the production of goods and services.

It takes 1 gallon of water to produce one almond, which means that an obscene amount of precious water (approximately 10 percent of the state's water) is allocated to almond production.