Accomplice Simon Hopps, 38 , of Four Seasons Close, Dunholme, who was caught helping to water the plants, was jailed for 16 months after admitting the same charge.
One recent weapon is what frog-busters are calling a "hot shower chamber, " a modified freight container used by nurseries to ship plants, with multiple heads that spray heated water onto the plants and kill any coquis that might be lurking there.
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"After 20 days at sea we realized we were using more water for the plants than we anticipated and we were slightly concerned about our own water intake, " David de Rothschild told CNN.
The scheme was discovered because the building did not have mains water and Lewsey was seen repeatedly taking in quantities of water for the plants.
The water processing plants have now been fixed, the Aguas Andinas company said.
Experts recommend that you use bubblers or drip irrigation systems that deliver the water very close to the young plants.
The pinch will be on farmers like Johnny Howell who run water to plants around the clock, without much hope of turning a profit.
This bare, sandy earth then becomes an effective rain trap - with no vegetation, water cannot be lost through transpiration (the evaporation of water from plants).
Water treatment plants in the city also had to be shut for a few hours.
Water is used whether the plants need it or not.
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Driven by the need to conserve water, plants produce fewer stomata openings in their leaves when there is more carbon dioxide in the air.
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Ms. KING: Well, it's - people are becoming more aware of what an ecosystem is and the importance of it interacting, the creatures and people and plants and the land and water interacting with each other.
Every presence in this stark, eroded setting is created by absence, by missing earth and water, by the missingness of plants and people.
Solar thermal power, which is the most economical form of solar power production, additionally consumes at least double the water of conventional power plants.
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Developers are building in a more eco-conscious manner, constructing homes in areas where well water is available and incorporating water-saving plants into the landscape.
He cleared land, built dams, planted out new strains of coffee bush and laid pipelines to drip feed the plants with water and fertiliser.
The problem was reportedly caused by flash floods in the Andes, which muddied the river Maipo and forced the closure of water processing plants.
Where the water had receded the earth was muddy, dotted by feeble plants.
The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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The water powering the frames is recycled and filtered before returning to the plants.
However, the installed base of solar thermal electricity generation uses twice the water as coal and five times the amount as gas-fired plants.
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Scientists at East Malling Research in Kent said they were perfecting giving the plants as little water as possible, but enough to keep them healthy.
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 first step is to get highly radioactive water out of the flooded basements of the units' turbine plants, then figure out how badly the equipment inside has been damaged.
The trouble, says the government, is that the country's water-treatment plants are in disrepair.
Examples include vaccination, fluoridation of water, and the genetic engineering of crop plants.
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These plants need the fresh water flow from the river for cooling, processing, and to ship their product out to the Gulf.
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Garden centers, nurseries, local native plant societies, county extension service offices, books and the Internet can all be great resources for researching the best, most water-efficient plants.
Hydroponics and aeroponics - a type of hydroponics, but rather than growing in nutrient-rich water, grows in the air and the plants get sprayed with nutrients - technology is increasingly being utilised by businesses themselves.
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