Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes today that although the storm surge has pushed salt water from the Gulf as far as 314 miles upstream, all the rain expected to fall north of New Orleans in the coming days will help raise near record-low water levels on the river and flush the salt water back out.
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Mr. SHIREMAN: After every three or so flushes, it requires a manual procedure to go in and actually flush some additional water.
What is is the provision of water to flush them and a sewage system to flush them into.
We had to leave our office a few weeks ago because there wasn't enough water to flush the toilets.
The new building will reuse rain water to flush the toilets and a solar electric generating system will be installed on the roof.
But summertime thunderstorms are not delivering the up to 2 feet of rainfall forecasters say is needed to break the drought and flush estuaries of salt water.
Did it really make sense for the feds to decree (in a 1992 law supported by the first Bush Administration) that newly installed toilets use no more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush?
Typically, drugs get into the water supply when people flush unneeded medication down toilets or pass trace amounts in urine.
In its own facilities, Facebook has reduced water consumption with dual-flush toilets and motion-sensor faucets.
We've been told to use buckets as we can't flush the toilets in case any contaminated water leaks out.
Engineers like to point out that it takes just one-and-a-half gallons of water--one toilet flush--to create enough hydrogen for an average day's driving, 30 miles.
Istanbul's cityscape can be enjoyed from the water even if you are not flush with cash.
By 2000 his ankles and feet looked like water balloons, his liver unable to flush out toxins.
People who suspect contact with the chemical are urged to flush their body and clothes with large amounts of water, and, if necessary, remove their clothing and bathe with soap and water at least 15 minutes.
Standard green features in each home include LED lighting, recycled glass countertops, a high-efficiency water heater, water-conserving fixtures including dual-flush toilets, FSC-certified bamboo flooring, EnergyStar appliances, zero-VOC paints, finishes, and adhesives, a whole-house ventilation system, low-E windows, high levels of insulation, a fully recyclable, heat-deflecting cool roof, exterior wood siding and decking made from FSC-certified cedar, and much more.
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Crabs and other marine invertebrates die when the water is too cold, because they cannot flush magnesium out of their systems.
The findings indicate that wastewater treatment plants are effective at removing caffeine from the water, but that high rainfall and combined sewer overflows flush the caffeine out to sea.
The 300, 000 litres (66, 000 gallons) of water that the firemen poured on the blaze helped to flush out the acid that had been used in the original papermaking process and which had previously been destroying the books.
He said even 24 years later, people who lived in Camelford at the time of the poisoning should drink a litre of mineral water with a high silicon content every day as this could help flush aluminium from their bodies.
Now we have no water at all, no shower or bath, can't even flush the toilets.
Then we were escorted back to the tents, hot water bottles already warming the soft, king-sized sheets (with hot showers, flush toilets and colonial-inspired furniture, you are far from roughing it here).
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