Sentences with phrase «water systems around»

But many municipal water systems around the country have levels far higher than that, recent studies have shown.

Not exact matches

Founded by Cody Friesen, a materials scientist, the startup's Source system relies on an ultra-absorbent material that collects water at 20,000 times the concentration of the air around it.

In this session, Author Kim Zetter will talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products of our daily lives, including cars and medical equipment.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

We can observe this search for a unifying principle at work in the history of philosophy, developing from Thales» water, Plato's Form of the Good, and Aristotle's Unmoved Mover, through most of medieval and early modern philosophy, and on to the objective anticipation of the final whole around which Pannenberg centers his system.

They postulated the heliocentric theory of the solar system (Aristarchus of Samos) and suggested the atomic theory of matter but finally settled for the far more reasonable explanations that the Sun went around the Earth and that all things were composed of earth, air, fire, and water.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

The Upper Murray - centred around Barmah - Millewa Forest and potentially including lower reaches of adjacent tributaries (Goulburn and Campaspe) and parts of the Edward - Wakool system - is one of four priority research sites for the Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project (MDB EWKR).

Due to several small flow pulses in early 2016 (flows peaked at around 25,000 ML / day at St George on 11 February), Commonwealth environmental water contributed to 9,454 ML across the system.

The groups also called for hard data on whether it was economically feasible to get around so - called «constraints» such as the risk of flooding private land or overwhelming bridges, which Mr Burke says limits how much extra water can be pumped into the system.

Around 1990, reports were all over the media about an inventor who was adding capsaicin to the paint used on boat hulls and intake valves on municipal water systems to prevent the growth of barnacles and zebra mussels.

So, I am seriously into fire prevention and water damage hardware... perhaps especially the water damage hardware because when I was pregnant with Violet we had flooding in our basement and no alarm system so we didn't discover what was happening until we went down to the basement and saw our belongings FLOATING AROUND.

Legionella is a commonly occurring bacteria and can be found in around 10 % to 20 % of domestic hot water systems.

She has reported on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schools.

Perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, has been detected in the municipal water system as well as private wells in and around Hoosick Falls.

Though the amount of water processed through the system isn't troublesome — 600,000 gallons per day is permitted, and they usually use around 130,000, Mayor Gregory Martin said — the village pipes are old, and whenever it rains, inflow to their wastewater system poses possible threats.

In the icy bodies around our solar system, radiation emitted from rocky cores could break up water molecules and support hydrogen - eating microbes.

The simulations suggest that over decades, these warming events dramatically perturb the ocean surface, affecting the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.

ne = the number of habitable planets around each star In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's «habitable zone» — a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.

As water scarcity and quality issues grow in California and around the world, a new book co-edited by UC Riverside water economist Ariel Dinar and water experts in Spain and Argentina examines the experience of 15 countries where conservation has been achieved through water - pricing incentive systems.

A record - breaking three planets in this system are super-Earths lying in the zone around the star where liquid water could exist, making them possible candidates for the presence of life.

In a biological system, a lot of water molecules are flexibly arranged around the biologically functional molecules, without strongly binding to them.

Stuart Minchin, an environmental chemist and IT whiz who heads the WRON team, shows me around a climate - controlled room where hard drives the size of meat lockers corral information from the nation's diverse water management agencies and track virtually every drop of water in lakes, reservoirs, aquifers, and river systems.

Memtec's microfiltration system is cleaning up sewage around the world and has even been used by the Australian Army to shower 600 troops in a single eight - hour shift using one continuously recycled tank of water.

The genome could also help uncover the genetic basis for other octopus innovations, such as their elaborate prehensile arms with suckers used to sense chemicals in the water as well as feel and grasp; their ability to regenerate their limbs; a propulsion system that allows them to jet around underwater; camera - like eyes that are more like humans than other invertebrates; and the fact that they have three hearts to keep blood pumping across their gills.

It also forced scientists to rethink their ideas about how comets transported water and organic material around the newborn solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

Roads, bridges, rail, water and sewerage systems and many dams are in dangerous disrepair around the country; large sections of New Orleans remain wrecked and highly vulnerable; and even ground zero of 9/11 remains a hole in the ground because of endless bickering.

In 2013, more than 200 undergraduate teams from around the world competed in iGEM, creating novel biological systems (such as an E. coli - based sensor to detect arsenic in drinking water) using BioBrick parts made and freely shared by previous iGEM students, and stored and distributed from the freezers at iGEM headquarters in Cambridge, Mass..

De Leeuw's team created computer models of dust grains made of olivine, a common mineral both in our solar system and in the dusty nebulae around other stars, and calculated what happened when water molecules attached themselves to the irregular surfaces of these fluffy grains.

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, harbors an underground ocean containing more water than all the oceans on Earth.

A bacterium hazardous to people with liver disease or a compromised immune system is ubiquitous in the warm waters around the Florida coast and gets into the oysters.

The survey's three main authors, Manuel Lopes - Lima and Ronaldo Sousa from the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIMAR) and Professor Jürgen Geist / Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology at TUM, describe how crucial mussels are for aquatic ecosystems: they form around 90 percent of the biomass in the bed of a water body.

Around 390 million years ago, the first vertebrate animals moved from water onto land, necessitating changes in their musculoskeletal systems to permit a terrestrial life.

My research focuses on the formation of terrestrial planets in our Solar System and around other stars, especially with regards to the delivery of water and other biologically - important materials.

The distance from Vega where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 7.1 AU — between the orbital distances of Jupiter and Saturn in the Solar System.

«The finding of water in a large asteroid means the building blocks of habitable planets existed — and maybe still exist — in the GD 61 system, and likely also around a substantial number of similar parent stars,» Farihi said.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 0.036 AU from Star B — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.5 AU from around Iota Persei — around the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 1.18 AU from Star A — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around close - orbiting Stars A and B may be centered as close as 1.06 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period of over 384 days (1.05 years).

In view of future missions to the outer Solar System, an accurate identification of the space weather conditions around a planet can contribute significantly in the estimation of the water abundances in the planetary atmospheres and their long - and short - term variability.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star C would be centered around 0.11 AU — well inside the orbit of Mercury in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 24.4 days.

Calculations by to Weigert and Holman (1997) indicated that the distance from the star where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.73 to 0.74 AU — somewhat beyond the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System — with an orbital period under an Earth year using calculations based on Hart (1979).

For an Earth - type planet around HD 189733 A to have liquid water at its surface, it would need a stable orbit centered around 0.5 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System (with an orbital period around 150 days assuming a stellar mass around 82 percent of Sol's.

Calculations by to Weigert and Holman (1997) indicated that the distance from the star where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 1.25 AUs (1.2 to 1.3 AUs)-- about midway between the orbits of the Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 1.34 years using calculations based on Hart (1979).

If you include infrared radiation, the orbit of an Earth - like planet with surface water would be centered around 0.57 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 1.14 AU — somewhat outside the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of about one and a quarter of an Earth year.

Based on its estimated bolometric luminosity, the distance from HR 4523 A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.88 AU — between the orbital distance of Venus and Earth in the Solar System, with an orbital period about 330 days, or about 90 percent of an Earth year.

In any case, the orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Zeta2 would have to be centered at around one AU — the orbital distance Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of just over a year.

The orbital distance from Gamma Pavonis where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 1.2 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.