For every two gallons of water the plant takes in, its reverse osmosis process will make one gallon of fresh water and send back to the ocean one gallon with twice the salinity level.
This decreases the amount of water that the plant is forced to transpire and allows the plant to withstand dry conditions better.
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As a result, plants require many hundreds of grams of water to produce one gram of plant biomass, largely carbohydrate.
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Some of the most beautiful things in this show are the shikisi, or poem cards, in which the visual form of Koetsu's writing chimes wonderfully with the loops and eddies of Sotatsu's water, the spikes of his plant stems and the slow blur of his distant mountains.
As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.
It also scores points for being designed to earn Platinum LEED certification, with features like a rainwater-harvesting project and in-house water treatment plant to ensure 100 percent recycling of water.
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But the region gets roughly 30% of its electricity from nuclear power plants, and each plant needs prodigious amounts of water.
The problems began when the former Soviet Union made Kazakhstan its main producer of cotton, a plant that needs a great deal of water.
United Utilities is converting a by-product of waste water at its Blackburn plant into gas.
When the Department of Environmental Protection noticed hydrogen sulfide in the city's water supply, Stephen Hollowell, general manager of Steinhatchee's chlorine-based water-treatment plant, and his board were willing to a take a chance on new technology.
The water leak occurred in thousands of tubes that carry heated water from the reactor core through the plant's steam generators.
Dirk Bowman watches with pride as we walk along an assembly line, while workers tweak and twiddle with lines of cylindrical water heaters at this General Electric plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
This plant is an example of how water-energy innovations work in concert to reduce cost.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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His group first looked to nature for inspiration, using studies of the biochemistry of organisms that survive without water: 500-year-old Chinese lotus seeds, the hardy resurrection plant of the Sonoran desert and the microscopic tardigrade creature.
He works part-time in a plant that filters arsenic out of drinking water.
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In Corralejo, a wind farm is associated to a water desalination plant, while the University of La Laguna is developing a biofuel production project using jatropha curas seeds.
The 9.0 earthquake that struck two years ago appears to have severely damaged the foundations of the plant - creating large cracks in the underground walls that are supposed to keep the plant water tight.
It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination plant.
In a normally functioning plant, coolant water is circulated out of the reactors and chilled.
The court heard how the spills saw untreated sewage engulf areas around the loch, "smothering" plant life and starving the surrounding water of oxygen.
The city, which will eventually be home to 50, 000 people, relies entirely on solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and a desalinization plant will provide water, 80% of which will be recycled.
In a cover letter, NMFS regional administrator John Bullard cautioned that the study applies only to the way the Indian Point reactors currently operate, using the screens to block fish from being drawn into the plant with the millions of gallons of river water used for cooling.
After this, excavation work can start to lay the foundations of the nuclear plant including two underground 3km tunnels for the cooling water.
Radioactivity contaminated the soil and sea near the plant, the Tokyo water supply and trace amounts of radiation are being detected in Asia and North America.
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It was all reflected in the smooth surface of the water, coloured a coffee-black by tannins released from decaying plant life below.
In terms of green credentials, a renewable energy plant was promised to provide heat and water to all new homes.
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Instead of flooding the field, just the required amount of water "drips" slowly through intermittent holes in the tubes directly onto the plant's roots.
As most of you know by now, my father was a pump operator at the city water plant in Chicago.
And I share this often -- as many of you know, my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.
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