These water uses account for some 70 percent of southern Nevada's water use.
It is an interesting proposition, especially considering how much water agriculture uses.
Like its scaly counterpart, Water Runner uses a rapid slapping motion of the "feet" that provides enough propulsion for the bot to avoid sinking or tipping over.
So it is that the French National Assembly published a report last month about the geopolitics of water that included a 20-page diatribe claiming that Israel uses water as a weapon of apartheid against the Palestinians.
Compared with other crops, rice production is less efficient in the way it uses water.
So all the water her family uses is in drums, plastic buckets, pots - any container that is clean.
At Purdue University in Indiana, scientists are working on a reactor-like device that uses water circulated by gravity to keep the core cool.
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Hydroforming uses water pressure (up to 15, 000 pounds per square inch) to force the flat steel against a one-sided tool, achieving the same result for half the cost.
According to Water.org, agriculture uses approximately 70% of fresh water.
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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.
The widespread adoption of water mills on a scale never seen in Roman times led not only to a wider range of uses for water power, but an increase in other forms of mechanisation.
According to the Pacific Institute the average American uses about 70 gallons of water per day while the average Gambian uses about 1 gallon per day and the average European is somewhere in the middle.
In the U.S., industry uses more water than agriculture thanks to its use in power generation.
It uses intense water pressure to shape a car's steel body panels on half a stamping die.
The unit uses no water or detergents, and can be placed in any room of a home.
It also uses Irish water, Irish cereal and Irish expertise, which means it is going to survive globalization.
Balancing current and future water demands between competing uses (including ecosystems and their services) will become an issue.
Wind power is cheap, clean, uses no water, and emits no pollutants.
Still, the MIT report points out that shale-gas extraction uses less water than other industries, and indeed than other sources of energy.
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"The process also uses less water and energy - we simply use coloured bottles to avoid using dye, " says Alex Lo, the company's managing director.
Water can be easily stored and consumers have less discretion over when they use it (for instance, people cannot defer going to the toilet, which uses more water than any other activity at home), so the case for smart water meters is weaker.
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The industrial sector uses an estimated 45% of water in the United States, agriculture accounts for 42% and domestic uses, like drinking and sanitation, account for a mere 13%.
Well the breakdown of who uses how much water in what ways is kind of surprising.
Recycling uses energy, water and other resources and creates its own stream of waste.
Frangipani implements a rainwater recycling system to water its sustainable gardens and uses solar panels to reduce energy use.
Facebook is increasingly becoming a utility that everyone uses, like water or electricity.
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" The human right to water includes "sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses.
However, the installed base of solar thermal electricity generation uses twice the water as coal and five times the amount as gas-fired plants.
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It's a succulent oasis on 3 acres that uses very little water, a surprisingly exotic island of sculptural desert plants surrounded by suburbia.
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