WATERGY: A Water and Energy Conservation Model for Federal Facilities By Dr. Sharon deMonsabert‚ P.E. Associate Professor‚ Urban Systems Engineering George Mason University Fairfax‚ VA 22030-4444 Phone: 703-993-1747 Fax: 703-993-1706 Barry L. Liner Consultant - Management Practice Water Research Center (WRc inc.) 7700 Leesburg Pike‚ Suite 400 Falls Church‚ VA 22043 Phone: 703-918-9573 Fax: 703-749-7962 Presented At CONSERV’96 Orlando‚ Florida January 6‚ 1996 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The
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BOTTLED WATER – A REPORT 1. INTRODUCTION: The global bottled water industry has become very profitable in the past ten years. Huge multinational companies currently make billions of dollars on water they simply extract from the ground‚ slap a label on and sell at competitive prices. Examples of these companies includes: Aquafina (Pepsi)‚ Dasani (Coke)‚ Perrier (Nestle)‚ Evian‚ and Fiji Water among hundreds of others. Many countries have become very oriented toward bottled water. According to
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WATER SCARCITY AND SECURITY IN INDIA Dr. Narayan G. Hegde nghegde@baif.org.in Global Water Crisis Water is life because plants and animals cannot live without water. Water is needed to ensure food security‚ feed livestock‚ maintain organic life‚ take up industrial production and to conserve the biodiversity and environment. Hence‚ there is no life without water. Earth is the only plant‚ so far known to have water and this makes it fit for human living. However‚ with reckless abuse and
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The Ethical Treatment of Animals A person for the ethical treatment of animals (PeTA) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk‚ VA‚ and led by its founder‚ Ingrid Newkirk (international president). PeTA was founded‚ March 1980 as a nonprofit organization. As of 2011‚ its assets are 18.02 million‚ with revenue of 31.81 million. Alex Pacheco‚ co-founder of PeTA is an American animal rights activist from Joliet‚ IL. Newkirk and Pacheco first became widely publicized
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Hi‚ my name is water molecule! H2O for short. I live in the bottom of a well. I come from 2 hydrogen atoms‚ but I have an oxygen atom in me! Down here in my well‚ we have a swell time together. In our liquid state‚ we are not too far apart‚ nor too packed together. It’s really great being a liquid! I feel bad for my cousin CO2. He is probably sublimating into a gas from a solid‚ or as a gas‚ freezing back into a solid. He has no melting point‚ only a freezing and boiling point. I’m SO glad I will
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Growth Attenuation Therapy‚ also referred to as the “Ashley Treatment” is a medical procedure that involves inflicting hormones such as estrogen in the body in order to accelerate the closure of growth plates. As a result‚ there is a 20-40% reduction in height and weight‚ attenuating the size of the body as a whole. This treatment first started when the parents of Ashley‚ a girl with severe developmental disabilities‚ decided to do the treatment in order to give Ashley a better quality of life. They are
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Sewage is water that carried waste‚ and also known as wastewater that to be removed to preserve the quality of our environment of Malaysian rivers‚ streams and coasts. Sewage can be characterised in chemical‚ physical‚ and biological. The main physical‚ chemical and biological elements of domestic sewage is more than 99% water and is characterised by volume of flow‚ physical condition‚ chemical composition and the bacteria organisms that it contains. (A. Mason‚ et.al‚ 2013). Sewage treatment is the
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Feasibility study of a Solar Energy as a purifier for Contaminated and Salt water An Undergraduate Research Paper Presented to Mrs. Josephine Impe Napnapan National High School Tigbauan‚ Iloilo Stephen T. To-ong Acknowledgment The researcher would like to extend his sincere thanks and appreciation to the following people who have contributed‚ in one way or another‚ to the realization of this study. Mrs. Josephine Impe‚ research adviser‚ for the encouragement and support from the
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Water conservation refers to reducing the usage of water and recycling of waste water for different purposes such as cleaning‚ manufacturing‚ and agricultural irrigation. Water conservation programs are typically initiated at the local level‚ by either municipal water utilities or regional governments. Common strategies include public outreach campaigns‚ tiered water rates (charging progressively higher prices as water use increases)‚ or restrictions on outdoor water use such as lawn watering
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House Gas emissions‚ but very few report their water footprint. Water is as important as the air we breathe. We may be able to survive without electricity‚ but not without water. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency‚ an average US family of four uses about 400 gallons of water from their daily activities such as: taking shower‚ laundry‚ washing dishes and flushing the toilet [1]. This water consumption is without taking into account the water that goes into the food they consume‚ clothes
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