Sentences with phrase «with water meters»

Those living in homes with water meters have an incentive to use water - saving devices such as low - flow showerheads and toilets and front - loading washing machines.

Since 1990, all new homes have been fitted with water meters.

If you've more or the same number of bedrooms in your house than people, you're probably better off with a water meter.

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With an eight - hour battery, the Scosche band is likely to last for an entire workout, and it's water - resistant in up to one meter of water, so it should be able to withstand a run in the rain.

Apple raised the bar with the Apple Watch Series 2, adding built - in GPS and water - resistance up to 50 meters.

Neff's research helps us understand the health of massive glaciers with behavior we still don't fully understand but that lock up enough water to drive up global sea levels on the order of meters, not inches.

The system is available for pre-order today for $ 279.99 and will ship in April with the water flow meter following in May.

As to land and water on earth one theory holds that the earth was covered with water 3,000 meters deep when it was hit by large object that vaporized the surface leaving but a thin atmosphere and some water.

Emptying into the Jordan ten kilometers south of Lake Tiberias, the Yarmouk River has historically supplied the river with 400 million cubic meters of water per year.

With a focus on constant improvement of practices and adoption of the latest farming and winemaking technologies, McManis Family Vineyards» water use efficiency measures in the vineyard include the use of soil moisture sensors, flow meters and distribution uniformity tests; while their winery recycles water and averages one gallon of water to produce one gallon of wine.

Investigators toured the property in August 2015 discovering water meters which appeared to have been tampered with and large - scale pumping that appeared to be «outside of required river heights».

A Natural, Renewable Product With over 900,000 cubic meters of water overflowing from the Ölfus Spring into the ocean every day, it's one of the world's largest natural springs.

The center would have a zero - depth pool; six - lane, 15 - meter lap pool; tot pool with water slide, jet sprays and water mists; «plunge pool» with tall water slides, and, possibly, wet and dry sand play areas for children.

The center would include a 50 - meter indoor pool with drop slides and a diving platform; a warm - water leisure pool with a whirlpool and water play features; a gymnasium with recessed soccer goals; three volleyball courts and two basketball courts; a track overlooking the gymnasium; a fitness center with cardiovascular equipment, weight machines and free weights; an aerobics studio; and additional programming rooms.

After an outcry from Peekskill homeowners who were charged hundreds of dollars extra for their monthly water bills once new water meters were installed by the city, Peekskill officials say those affected homeowners can take up their dispute with city comptroller, who's been authorized to make any necessary changes.

The LSPWC boss, who recalled that the initial drainage system with a width of 0.6 meters was inadequate to contain the flow of flood water, said the agency had to reconstruct it to a size of 1.2 meters after which massive rehabilitation work commenced on the road.

Many in the crowd voiced their displeasure with the Council for its December vote that increased flat water rates by $ 212 a year and metered rates by $ 152 a year.

The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead Sea.

They found glacial fjords hundreds of meters deeper than previously estimated; the full extent of the marine - based portions of the glaciers; deep troughs enabling Atlantic Ocean water to reach the glacier fronts and melt them from below; and few shallow sills that limit contact with this warmer water.

Using more pure water from offshore aquifers rather than ocean water has the potential to reduce desalination costs, the authors argue — with reverse osmosis, desalination costs for ocean water run between 53 cents and $ 1.50 per cubic meter, while the cost to process brackish water from offshore aquifers runs between 10 cents and $ 1.

But one afternoon, the whales all converged on one place where there was a really high density of prey — a 40 - meter - thick swath of water with 107 grams of krill per cubic meter, as opposed to the average density of 66 grams per cubic meter, Cade reported at the meeting.

They analyzed 1,673 drinking - water wells that were within 300 meters of fields treated with aldicarb, which has the trade name Temik, and found that none violated the EPA's health advisory limit.

So Weschler and Wisthaler simulated a typical office environment at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen — two people in a carpeted 28.5 — cubic meter room at a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius with two small stainless steel tables, two chairs, two flat - screen LCD monitors, two headsets, one walkie - talkie, one small mixing fan, a few books, two laptops, two bottles of water and ozone concentrations that reached roughly 32 parts per billion, an average exposure for a hot, smoggy day.

The Fukushima plant is crowded with 10 - meter - tall tanks storing tainted water used to cool melted nuclear fuel masses and groundwater that infiltrated the site — some 750,000 tons in all.

A «300 - foot gash in the hull» was often mentioned - just like the image we show in our issue from two weeks after the tragedy: Later calculations looked at the rate with which water flooded the ship during the two hours and 40 minutes it stayed afloat after the collision and showed that «the gash» in reality would have resulted in only slight damage to the hull, perhaps amounting a dozen square meters in total.

UTMB officials said that although none of the buildings on campus suffered any structural damage, many were inundated with 1 to 1.3 meters of water.

Where the shelf ends and the continental slope drops steeply downwards, waters at 1,500 - 2,000 meters teem with long - lived predatory species such as bluefin tuna, swordfish, marlin and wahoos, which probably all swam through the plume.

They came up with a maximum flow of 0.23 cubic meters per second, or 19,872,000 liters or 125,000 barrels daily, but this is a bulk outflow that includes mud, water, and gas as well as oil.

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

The wispy particles can not be observed directly, however, so the 39 - meter - diameter, 41 - meter - high observation tank is filled with water and lined with photomultiplier tubes that can catch a distinctive glow, known as Cerenkov radiation, produced when neutrinos smash into atomic particles in the water.

This device, which rests on the seabed 4,000 meters below the surface, combines a pressure gauge to detect changes in the water level with an electromagnetometer.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.

The sinkhole, which filled with slurry — a fluid mixture of water and pulverized solids — has gradually expanded and now measures about 25 acres (10.1 hectares) and is at least 750 feet (229 meters) deep.

Looking through the portholes of the submersible ALVIN near the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1979, American scientists saw for the first time chimneys, several meters tall, from which black water at about 300 degrees and saturated with minerals shot out.

Liu worked with the municipal water company to collect almost four years» worth of discarded water meters, giving the team a large set of city biofilm data.

The calculations suggest that the ocean contains about 60,000 to 80,000 tons of mercury from pollution, with almost two - thirds residing in water shallower than a thousand meters, the team reports online today in Nature.

The pre-GERD Nile flow now barely supplies 97 % of Egypt's present water needs with only 660 cubic meters per person, one of the world's lowest annual per capita water shares.

A new study shows that as a glacier's ice melts, bubbles of pressurized ancient air escape into the water, leading to noise levels even louder than those beneath rain - pounded seas heaving with 6 - meter waves.

Below, the seven - meters - across mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays — along with the tube carrying the water to be heated — are suspended from the greenhouse itself.

Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks, about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer • Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation • Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are about the same length and width.

It was bad enough to learn last year that the ice sheets of West Antarctica were headed toward inevitable collapse in just a few centuries and that the world would have to contend with the more than 3 meters of water they hold.

The scientists detailed their best effort to come up with estimates of carbon cycling in three subsets of coastal areas: those dominated by river outlets, others consisting of filtering estuaries and bays, and the continental shelf — any coastal water reaching a depth of about 200 meters or fewer.

These towering, solitary walls of water can measure tens of meters in height and are difficult to predict, often occurring in calm seas with little warning.

In the Arkansas case, the police ended up striking possible gold, not with the Echo but with Bates's smart water meter.

The vessel, which is 7.3 meters long but only 1.09 meters wide, also has a sphere - shaped pressurized cockpit that collected evaporated moisture from Cameron's breath and sweat into a plastic bag, which would supply him with extra drinking water if necessary.

The long - term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast - moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

SOFIA mission public engagement & public outreach efforts, including maintaining the Science Center website and producing social media output, are jointly managed & implemented by SOFIA staff employed by USRA, the SETI Institute, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a telescope with an effective diameter of 100 inches (2.5 meters) at altitudes up to 45,000 feet (14 km), above the obscuring layer of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere.

All those people who paid big bucks to buy up all the ocean front property at 60 meters above sea level are really going be unhappy with 20 meters of salt water over their heads.

To summarize, it looks luxurious, it's in touch with fashion, has amazing yearly battery life and will withstand water up to 50 meters, which is really all you need unless you're a deep - sea diver.