Within the 24-year period, 67% of the years show negative net annual specific balances, with a cumulative mass balance loss of - 10.50 m water equivalent (w.e.).
In all, the district will emit 70 percent less carbon dioxide and consume 30 percent less water than an equivalent conventional community.
Most courses require at least 6, 500 cubic meters of water daily -- "that's equivalent to the water needs of 6, 000 Metro Manila residents, " says Flavier.
For too long the Fed looked at this monetary equivalent of water hoarding and concluded there was no shortage.
The key is the drilling and management of several dozen boreholes around London to pump out about 70m litres (15m gallons) of water a day, equivalent to about 3% of Londoners' daily consumption.
Voltage is equivalent to water pressure.
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Jack Bradley Cave has only 15 milligrams of carbon per liter of water in the rock, the equivalent of 15 grains of sugar dissolved in a liter of water.
Aside from the recent housing bubble and subsequent collapse, over time home prices have risen at about the same rate of inflation, the financial equivalent of treading water.
It seems water charges have become the political equivalent of pass the parcel.
In some ways, Get Water is like the video game equivalent of an afterschool special, but with better production values.
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Geoff Lomas, from Yorkshire Water, said ancient woodlands were the UK equivalent of the Amazon rainforests.
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.
Dr Binder estimates that the amount is equivalent to between 10m and 300m tonnes of water.
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That's equivalent to about 40 years worth of the water that flows out of the Mississippi.
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All of the SETI searching over the past 50 years is equivalent to examining one 8-ounce glass of water from the Earth's oceans -- a lot of human effort, but not a lot of exploration.
Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) said in a press release late Thursday that it has found the equivalent of 700 million barrels of oil in deep water Gulf of Mexico at the Keathley Canyon bloc it runs together with ExxonMobil (XOM) and Italian oil firm Eni.
"The Ariad position is equivalent to discovering that gravity is the force that makes water run downhill and then demanding the owners of all the existing hydroelectric plants begin to pay patent royalties on their use of gravity, " says Armitage.
In 1990 an equivalent gun would have used 15 times as much compressed air as water, and thus been far more expensive to run.
And although they cannot compete with aeroplanes for speed, or with water-borne shipping for volume, they could cover in a few days a distance equivalent to a six-week journey by ship.
Most of this burden was carried as an implicit subsidy to domestic energy consumers, with the price of diesel fuel, for example, set at the equivalent of two American cents a litre, and petrol selling for less than bottled water.
This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.
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