About 10, 000 gallons goes down a well--less than 1% of the 1 million gallons of water and 1 million pounds of sand used.
Across the bay, fancy yachts and speed boats crowd the shores of the Ilha, a once almost deserted strip of sand used mainly by poor fishermen, on which smart restaurants and nightclubs for the new elite are now springing up.
The beach used to have more sand, but it has been washed away over recent decades.
"She is miles off course but probably thought sand being used to expand the reservoir looked like home, " he said.
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In Surrey, sand is being used to treat secondary roads and pavements to conserve supplies of salt for main roads.
AChEis are found in pesticides that were used to protect soldiers against sand flies and other insects, and in the pyridostigmine bromide pills given to soldiers as part of a pre-treatment against nerve agents.
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To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
It was an unexpected and novel difficulty because the troop was used to eating on surfaces without sand.
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The company produces premium monocrystalline sand, which is used to improve the recovery of oil and gas during hydraulic fracturing drilling.
The company is the second largest producer of commercial silica, which is a sand-like substance used in fracking as well as glass making and chemical manufacturing.
Shale gas is natural gas that is trapped inside shale rock and is extracted by using a technology called hydraulic fracturing, where highly pressurized water mixed with sand and chemicals is used to crack open rocks.
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One example of the problem: U.S. soldiers once used bits from ancient Babylon to fill sand bags.
The gates which were used to keep the channels clear of sand and silt were removed and buried when the National Rivers Authority replaced the gates with a new flood protection system in 1981.
In Wichita, Pajor said the city used half of its road-clearing salt and sand in last week's storm.
Sand from the beach at Scarborough is being used by council workers to grit pathways in the town.
Specially formulated lubricants are used in fracking, which involves pumping water, fine sand and fracking fluids underground to split open oil- and gas-bearing rocks.
U.S. Silica specializes in commercial silica used in a variety of industries, the most prominent being "frac sand" to stimulate oil and gas recovery in formations such as shale.
He said similar fences had been used all along the dunes and have now been completely buried by the sand except for the odd post exposed on the seaward side during the winter.
It had been built illegally on what used to be a canal, before a developer had filled it in with sand.
Sand has been quarried in the area for more than 150 years and is used around the world as well as locally, the council added.
The county council said sand was a "highly effective way of providing traction" and would be used on pavements next to main roads, in town centres and around some secondary schools.
The Moroccans used them in the fighting and have now deployed them as their main weapon alongside the 900-mile sand wall, the "Berm" - that they constructed as a barrier between Western Sahara and the Saharawi camps in Algeria.
The ingredients used in hydraulic fracturing include a small dose of chemicals (0.5%) mixed with water and sand (99.5%).
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