Energy improves water quality through water and wastewater treatment, but energy can also degrade water quality through mistakes, accidents, or systemwide effects. Oil spills are particularly high-profile risks to water...
Energy improves water quality through water and wastewater treatment, but energy can also degrade water quality through mistakes, accidents, or systemwide effects. Oil spills are particularly high-profile risks to water...
...greatly reducing the entrainment and impingement of aquatic wildlife and reducing thermal pollution by limiting hot water returns. Image Credits: zhangyang13576997233/Shutterstock.com; Jeffrey M. Phillips/Webber Energy Group; Vaclav Volrab/Shutterstock.com; iofoto/Shutterstock.com; Brisbane/Shutterstock.com....
...their lawns). Consumption above that amount has higher prices. The inverted block pricing system operates on the assumption that low-income households consume less energy and water and high-income households consume...
...This experiment consists of twin satellites launched in 2002.13 “GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment,” NASA, last modified July 9, 2014, accessed December 31, 2014, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/#.V8EAI2VixQc; and T. Green, “The...
...Drought drains $2.2 billion from farm economy,” The Modesto Bee, July 15, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014, http://www.modbee.com/news/local/article3167892.html; “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Table of Events,” National Centers for Environmental...
...as consumption increases, rates increase. That structure has been implemented for water in Irvine, California, and El Paso, Texas, and for electricity in many locations. Image Credits: gmstockstudio/Shutterstock.com; vipman/Shutterstock.com; LunaseeStudios/Shutterstock.com....
...readings per month, so new software and data management capabilities will be needed for utilities upgrading to newer systems. Image Credits: Courtesy/Itron; Eric Broder Van Dyke/Shutterstock.com; John Panella/Shutterstock.com; Cedric Crucke/Shutterstock.com....
When NASA’s deep space probes look for life, they look for water. When humans look for high quality of life, they assess water availability and quality as critical signs of...
...treatment plants can handle.20 B. D. Lutz, A. N. Lewis, and M. W. Doyle, “Generation, transport, and disposal of wastewater associated with Marcellus Shale gas development,” Water Resources Research 49...
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