Sentences with phrase «water rates over»

-- The Office of the State Comptroller said the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority increased sewer and water rates over an eight - year time period, a time where it had multimillion budget surpluses, after failing to conduct yearly financial reviews.

Not exact matches

«You've got a terrorist problem on two sides, a serious problem with Sudan and Ethiopia over Nile water that could turn into a shooting conflict, and a pretty poor population that is growing at alarming rates.»

In 2006, a physician working at a clinic in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., raised the alarm over what he considered high rates of cancer in the community, the result, he surmised, of water contamination from the oilsands operations upstream.

The problem is the Fed has chosen to get their water from the small 2 % inflation pond, which has been steadily shrinking over the last several decades (not global warming, but instead dropping 10 year rates).

Sedimentary layers, stalact.ites, water erosion over time, ice core data, tree rings, isotope decay rates.

And then over the next couple of days, it really goes down and they drop a tone of water rate.

With a rating of over 6 years old and holding up to 198 gallons of water, this pool will allow your older children plenty of room for hours of summer fun.

But it's debatable how long this will hold water for, and as the government found over the scrapping of the 10p tax rate, a tax change that leaves people worse off in payslip terms is pretty hard to talk around.

New York City is proposing a 2.1 percent hike on the water rate for homeowners, who have been consistently soaked over the years with the skyrocketing rates, though the rate increase would be the lowest in 16 years.

Anger was palpable at Oswego's Common Council meeting Monday evening over an increase in sewer and water rates.

Most of the other swimming earbuds on our list have an IPX8 rating, which means they can be taken into water over three feet deep.

In the Earth Surface Dynamics Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the behavior of rivers is modeled through the use of artificial rivers — flumes — through which water can be pumped at varying rates over a variety of carefully graded sediments while drag force and acceleration are measured.

While aquifers do recharge over time — the nation's water tables kept to a relatively constant level during the historically wet, cool years of the 1960s and 1970s — that rate of recharge can't make up for water use in the West.

A Watchful Eye Over Australia's Water Throttled by a water crisis that threatens Australia's future, the Australian government in 2008 launched a $ 10 billion campaign that is radically transforming the way water is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rWater Throttled by a water crisis that threatens Australia's future, the Australian government in 2008 launched a $ 10 billion campaign that is radically transforming the way water is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rwater crisis that threatens Australia's future, the Australian government in 2008 launched a $ 10 billion campaign that is radically transforming the way water is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rwater is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rises.

They also used satellite precipitation data to «backsolve» the brine's origins using sodium concentrations, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, as the isotopic composition of water reflects the condensation temperature and precipitation rate over time.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

That's likely because the water column was still separated into distinct saltwater and mostly freshwater layers — and hadn't started turning over at high rates, Schmidt says.

Instead, they show a resemblance to drainage systems on Earth, where water acts at slow rates over long periods of time.

The team also compared the ice loss up until the mid-1980s to that observed by satellites over roughly the last decade and found that today the rate of ice loss is twice the 20th century average, mostly because of increased water runoff from the ice sheet's surface.

Direct effects from depletion of O2 levels and rising water temperatures over the next century may also impact embryonic survival rates of vulnerable deep - sea oviparous (egg - laying) elasmobranchs that currently deposit their capsules at the seafloor in very narrow oceanographic niches with distinct O2, salinity and temperature conditions (Henry et al., 2016).

This does not seem a very large loss rate, but it has taken place relentlessly for more than 2 billion years, and the equivalent water or CO2 lost over this time period is in excess of several meters of liquid water spread over the whole surface of Mars.

«We're already seeing Los Angeles take incremental steps toward local water, but more needs to be done, as we've seen from the backsliding on consumer water conservation rates once the state prematurely declared the drought was over,» Gold said.

It has been argued that the land amplification is associated with lapse rate changes (not represented in the UVic model), and it is certain that drying of the land can play a role (not reliable in the UVic model since diffusing water vapor gives you a crummy hydrological cycle, especially over land).

The metabolic benefit of decreasing the rate of glucose absorption was clearly shown by studying the effect of 50 g glucose in water consumed either over 5 — 10 min (bolus) or at a constant rate over 3.5 h (sipping), as described by Jenkins et al (9).

Over the 5 years ending on December 31, 2014, Connecticut Water Service stock appreciated at an annualized rate of 11.28 %, from a split - adjusted $ 20.97 to $ 35.78.

And if you look it up, over those same years the (simple) average mortgage rate was 9 % — blowing the 5.5 % appreciation out of the water.

California Water Service Group has grown its dividends slowly, compounding them at a rate of less than 2 % over the last quarter century.

Edit: Assumptions that usually land me in hot water are: long term rates at 4 % to 5 %, salary adjustments of ~ 4 % per year up to a cap (a cap equal to what a senior person in my industry is paid, has mimicked my salary raises surprisingly well actually), I assume a 20 % tax rate on earnings averaged over all accounts, then I seek to replace an «inflation» adjusted 100K at ~ 1.5 % per year (my real goal would be a CPI adjusted 100K into the future, which very likely would not be driven by inflation, but no one has one of those crystal balls).

Over the 5 years ending on December 31, 2014, American States Water Company stock appreciated at an annualized rate of 19.79 %, from a split - adjusted $ 15.10 to $ 37.25.

So, in a 125 - gallon tank, you would need a pump that can push water — over a minimal four - to five - foot head — at the rate of 500 GPH.

The PADI Multi-Level Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating and is run over 2 open water dives with your instructor.

Rudyard Kipling rated this fiord as the eighth natural wonder of the world and it is truly breathtaking, with steep granite walls plunging over a thousand metres to the Tasman Sea and waterfalls cascading into deep inky water.

The PADI Boat Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating and is run over 2 open water dives with your instructor.

The PADI Search & Recovery certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating and is run over 4 open water dives with your instructor.

The PADI U / W Naturalist Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating and is run over 2 open water dives with your instructor.

The PADI U / W Navigation certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating and is run over 3 open water dives with your instructor.

The PADI PPB certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating and is run over 2 open water dives with your instructor.

The one exception we picked up on concerns a single, non-playable cut - scene just before the Venice stage in Metro Last Light, where a judiciously tossed box of dynamite annihilates a bunch of pursuing mutants during a water chase, producing a mini-tidal wave that momentarily causes the only noticeable frame - rate drop we saw over multiple hours of play on both versions of each remaster.

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«Our agricultural practices have always impacted water quality, but over the past century the mechanization of agriculture and the use of more potent fertilizers has caused a greater effect: the nitrogen leakage rate is higher....

If the air was much colder than the water, as it would be if it had just blown over from the land, then: a) If the rate of heat loss from the air was smaller than the rate of heat gain from the water, the air would warm.

Specimens of elkhorn coral living in water with excess carbon dioxide have been studied for fertilization rates, ability of larvae to settle on reef substrate (where they produce new corals), and subsequent growth and survival.3 Three levels of carbon dioxide were tested, corresponding to concentrations today, at mid-century, and at the end of the century on a high - emissions path.3, 5 At the mid-century concentration, the ability of fertilization to occur and for larvae to settle successfully on the reef was significantly reduced: around 52 percent, and the decline intensified to about 73 percent at the late - century concentration.3 The corals» ability to survive over the long run declined as well, by an average of 39 percent and 50 percent respectively.3, 4

It's because both land and ocean surfaces are heated by shortwave solar radiation and where aerosols reflect SWR equally well over land or water and where greenhouse gases work by retarding the rate of radiative cooling which is not equal over land and water.

During times of warmth, the ocean water levels rise as atmospheric moisture increases but at a rate decelerating when atmospheric temperatures over oceans approach say 33 C.

A threat for the obvious reasons: Bolivia is extraordinarily dependent on glaciers for its drinking and irrigation water and those white - capped mountains that tower over its capital were turning gray and brown at an alarming rate.

A thunderstorm event might be best depicted as a run - away rising column of air that is becoming progressively warmer than the surrounding air as condensing water vapor yields its heat of vaporization until almost all water vapor has condensed out and then cooling at a rate of 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters, it eventually reaches a warmer layer of air and spreads out like smoke over a ceiling.

Both water vapour and especially condescended water (cloud, the strongest emitter of LWIR in the atmosphere) can reduce surface cooling rates at night, but only over land.

In the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of West Antarctica, where glaciers terminate in the ocean and extend over the waters via floating ice tongues, six major glaciers are experiencing rapid rates of retreat.

The JGR paper is full of «might have», «may have», «could have» caveats along with «Its comparison with available bottom water measurements shows reasonably good agreement, indicating that deep ocean warming below 700 m might have contributed 1.1 mm / yr to the global mean SLR or one - third of the altimeter - observed rate of 3.11 ± 0.6 mm / yr over 1993 — 2008.»