The water is combined is an air tight chamber with anaerobic digesters (bacteria) which take out about 70% of the bad stuff out of the water.
When the drilling is finished, water, combined with chemicals designed to reduce friction and serve other purposes, is injected from the surface into the well shaft at very high pressures, thereby fracturing the shale rock formations far below, and making it possible to extract economically the natural gas embedded in the shale.
South Down MP Margaret Ritchie said the failure of two water pumps, combined with heavy rain led to the flooding.
Yet the truth is: these two trends, one from the world of analytics, the other from the world of innovation and change, can be Big Data: water wordscape powerfully combined to drive sustainable success in a highly uncertain world.
Production of crops and livestock is water-intensive, and agriculture alone accounts for 70% of all water withdrawn by the combined agriculture, municipal and industrial (including energy) sectors.
These demographic trends, combined with the water shortage, are causing worry.
The closeness of the main coral beds to the shores, combined with the water's float-friendly salinity, make the sea around Perhentian Besar and nearby Kecil excellent for snorkelling.
Human societies will thus continue to search for new sources of water, but the cost of procuring water is a function of the combined cost of extraction, harvesting, transportation, treatment, storage, and delivery.
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.
Officials admit the only solution to the water woes is a change in usage habits, particularly in Mexico City, which uses more water than the rest of the country combined.
Achenbach argues that a series of minor failures and misunderstood interdependencies, combined with the extreme conditions of deep water drilling caused the BP Oil Spill.
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In that same year, Cultiba was the only producer and distributor of beverages in Mexico with nationwide operations and was the country's second-largest beverage company based on combined sales volume of soft drinks and water.
What you need is a whoosh of water--that's money supply--combined with some Drano--that's fiscal restructuring.
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Polluted water kills more people than all wars, crimes and terrorism combined, according to the U.N.
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Second, the issue of combined sewer overflows is one of the most difficult water-quality issues faced by cities with old infrastructure like New York City.
When combined with other restrictions on coal ash and cooling water EPA is planning, capacity losses will more likely be somewhere between 3.5% and 7%.
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In some areas, such as energy and water regulation, it is likely that the transition to a combined regulator could take place relatively quickly, whilst in others, such as rail and telecommunications, it is likely to take longer to develop the full range of expertise.
The United Nations predicts that by 2025, forty-eight nations with a combined population of 2.8 billion will face fresh water stress or scarcity, according to Water.org.
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Engineers Buro Happold, commissioned by the local authority, have suggested a canopy on the building combined with 4m-deep (13 ft) baffles built across Water Lane would "offer significant wind mitigation".
When combined with poverty, social tensions, and weak leadership and institutions, water challenges may lead to social disruptions that cause state instability and regional tension.
China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia.
All the features could be combined into one refrigerator, says Mr. Mattingly, but research showed the water-heating feature appeals more to frequent home cooks, while hands-free filling appeals to tech-savvy consumers two distinct buying groups.
If the demonstration plant works as well as hoped, the plan will be to build combined electricity and hydrogen generating stations in locations where there are geological formations containing saline water overlain by a thick caprock serving as a seal.
Having calculated roughly that the pike measured about 1m (3.2ft) long and the zander about 75cm (2ft 5in), with a combined weight of about 15 kilos (33lb), he threw them back in the water.
The company claims that because of poor planning combined with multiple failures, the Corps of Engineers didn't create enough storage capacity for water even when very heavy rainfall was predicted.
Paradoxically, the government's difficulties over Iraq and public-service delivery, combined with the first stirrings of intellectual energy in the Conservative Party since Thatcherism's high-water mark in the late 1980s, have worked against him.
Roach says bank reserve requirements and rises in interest rates, combined with Beijing's recent "administrative edicts" to rein in investments, will throw cold water on the "China mania" gripping investors who blithely assume 11% growth every year.
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