Sentences with phrase «water quality criteria»

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Our study provides evidence of the benefits of RA shade tree cover criteria for managing water quality within high elevation tropical agro-ecosystems, especially if implemented at the watershed scale.

Cabazon's AWS Gold certification is reflective of the facility's meeting of advanced - level criteria, including the site's positive contribution to the local groundwater system, best practice of the site's water balance, best practice of the site's water quality, and implementation of a water education program, among others.

The Green Guide used 12 criteria for rating green hospitals: 1) siting, 2) water efficiency, 3) energy and air pollutions, 4) materials and resources, 5) indoor environmental quality, 6) healthy hospital food, 7) green education, 8) procurement, 9) contaminants, 10) green cleaning, 11) waste reduction, and 12) healing gardens.

«This has some pretty severe implications for water - quality criteria,» she said.

The Berkeley Lab study is the first of its kind for Africa, using multiple criteria - such as quality of the resource, distance from transmission lines and roads, co-location potential, availability of water resources, potential human impact, and many other factors - to characterize wind and solar resources.

Instead, in the future, Newman says Atrium School will seek the certification status of LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance, which is determined by the actual performance of a building in terms of criteria such as energy use, water use, indoor quality, and storm - water management.

These include standards - based projects and assignments that require students to apply their knowledge and skills, such as designing a building or investigating the water quality of a nearby pond; clearly defined rubrics (or criteria) to facilitate a fair and consistent evaluation of student work; and opportunities for students to benefit from the feedback of teachers, peers, and outside experts.

In this lesson, students will use information about the connection between changes in biodiversity and changes in water quality to articulate criteria and constraints for a water filter design.

He insists that you should ignore headlines and water cooler talk and instead use measurable criteria to choose quality stocks.

«The federal Clean Water Act requires the E.P.A. to update water - quality criteria to reflect the latest scientific knowledge,» the group said in a news relWater Act requires the E.P.A. to update water - quality criteria to reflect the latest scientific knowledge,» the group said in a news relwater - quality criteria to reflect the latest scientific knowledge,» the group said in a news release.

First Climate water projects are certified according to the strict quality criteria of the Gold Standard.

U.S. air and water quality have improved dramatically during the past several decades because of the creation of reasonable federal standards for criteria pollutants, such as sulfur, carbon monoxide, and particulates, and allowing the affected companies to choose the most effective and least expensive means to comply.

The State targets housing resources to communities that are assessed as being sustainable using specified criteria such as the quantity and quality of water; risk of flooding; access to services; and access to employment and enterprise opportunities.

S. 1140, the Federal Water Quality Protection Act, requires the Obama administration to withdraw its recently finalized Waters of the U.S. rule and sets new criteria for how a future rule should be...