The Water Standard will require firms to measure water use and demonstrate efforts taken to reduce consumption.
He has developed a community-based Early Warning Network System and regional data-sharing along with simple technologies to measure water levels and land contours to accurately forecast flash floods and the possible heights to which the water may reach.
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Through a spectacular racing boat, RACE FOR WATER aims to promote innovation with universities by developing tools and systems to measure the water footprint and micro-plastic pollution in the oceans.
Beijing has about 100 cubic meters of water available per person, well below the U.N. standard of 1, 000 cubic meters per person, a threshold used to measure chronic water shortage.
This is already beginning to happen in parts of both India and China, where farmers are learning how to measure the water they pump, how to use it to greatest effect and thus how to sustain aquifer levels.
Sensors measure when enough water has been applied to the fire to extinguish it.
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After returning to and repressurizing the Lunar Module, we were able to drain and measure the remaining water in the backpacks to confirm the predicted.
Peterson leans on some interesting technology (as well as old world techniques such as concrete fermenters) using sensors in the vineyard to measure exactly how much water is moving through the vine and the overall stress on the plant.
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The trick is a series of sensors that monitor water levels and measure how quickly they rise.
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As a self-contained city state, this measure helped reduce reliance on water imported from Malaysia and is deemed an important development for national resource independence.
What the new study does is measure it and confirm where the water is going.
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It transpires that conflicts over water erupt in equal measure in rich and poor countries, democracies and autocracies, fortunately on rare occasions.
In water the temperature changes are a good measure of relative enthalpy changes.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority said it was taking the unusual flood-prevention measure of spilling 1.5 million gallons of water per second through the Kentucky Dam near Paducah from the Tennessee River into the Ohio River.
Roughly 1, 200 years later, the Greeks used water dripping through holes in stone vessels to measure the passage of hours.
Mr Adams, a plaintiff in the lawsuit that overturned Measure 37, worries that new homes would disrupt his water supplies.
As for the market, when it approaches water it meets all sorts of obstacles: water is difficult to move, difficult to measure, difficult to price and often difficult to charge for, since many people think it should be free.
Rahim Kanani: What makes this approach innovative in the water and sanitation space, and how will you measure your impact?
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So the oil-services companies devised techniques (such as the Q-Fin system from WesternGeco and the Nautilus system from CGGVeritas) to measure and adjust the position of the streamers as they travel through the water.
Mike Maryon, from the council, said that had worked as a temporary measure but was not sufficient to deal with the "amazing" amounts of water at the weekend.
Boiling the pasta and cauliflower in the same pot is not merely a work-saving measure, Ms. Bloomfield said, it also adds flavor to the salted pasta water.
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Several teams of scientists trying to measure how much methane is actually being released have reported seeing vast bubbles coming up through the water - although analysing how much this matters is complicated by the absence of similar measurements from previous decades.
Rosemary Butler AM, chair of the legislation committee, raised concerns that the practical implications in relation to the provision and maintenance of a water supply have yet to be fully resolved and its potential impact of the proposed measure on the affordable housing agenda.
In Arkansas, where conditions are the driest they've been since 1925, according to one widely used measure of short-term drought, ranchers have been selling off cattle to avoid having to feed and water them, said Arkansas Department of Agriculture spokesman Zach Taylor.
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