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How green are you?(The Quiz)(Brief article)
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May 1, 2008
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Think you got the scoop on how to help the environment? Take this quiz and find out just how much you know, or don't, about conservation. The answers may surprise you!
(1) Every time you flush a standard toilet, you use--gallons of water.
A. 2.2 gallons
B. 4.5 gallons
C. 6.5 gallons
D. 9 gallons
(2) For every degree you lower your home's temperature during heating season, how much will you save on your monthly bill?
A. 1%
B. 2%
C. 5%
D. 10%
(3) In the two minutes it takes for you to brush your teeth, how much water goes down the drain?
A. 1/2 gallon
B. 1 gallon
C. 2 gallons
D. 4 gallons
(4) You have a ...
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Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);
June 19, 2006 ;
ASSOCIATED PRESS;
556 words
......nearby would use about 2 million gallons of water per day, most likely from the...of water. It takes about three gallons of water to produce each gallon of ethanol...year will go through 300 million gallons of water for processing the product and...
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942,000 Gallons; No Extra Charges ; Flawed Policy Benefits Water Board...
Albuquerque Journal;
July 30, 2008 ;
Copyright 2008 Albuquerque Journal By Sean Olson Journal Staff Writer;
658 words
......745 to use more than 942,000 gallons of water for his Tanoan home in 2007...people pay about $1.38 per 748 gallons -- or one water unit. The surcharge is 69...Archuleta said Tuesday that all water bills include gallons and units every month. Cummins...
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Utility wants to know: Excessive water use or snag?: Doral Pointe meters...
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);
April 22, 2007 ;
539 words
......18 in March for using 180,000 gallons of water. She cut back to 20-minute watering...which registered 1.5 million gallons of water consumed within 31 days, was...that registered more than 75,000 gallons of water used. Miles said that consumption...
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We're 10th worst in U.S. for water wasted Area loses 23.7 billion gallons...
Chicago Sun-Times;
August 29, 2002 ;
Gary Wisby;
322 words
......much as 23.7 billion gallons a year, according to the report. Water is considered lost...American uses 80 to 100 gallons of water every day. At 100 gallons, a billion gallons...seeing one billion gallons as a column of water. It would have a...
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FRANKLIN OPTS OUT OF GASTON PIPELINE SUFFOLK NOW HAS ACCESS TO THE MILLION...
The Virginian Pilot;
August 20, 1997 ;
Weintraub, Karen;
523 words
......exercise its option on the 1 million gallons of water per day that had been allotted...supply now provides 3.5 million gallons of water per day. The city also buys 300...community well systems. The 1 million gallons of water from the pipeline would buy the...
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Duke City Using Too Much Water ; Usage Up 620M Gallons So Far
Albuquerque Journal;
May 8, 2008 ;
DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer;
242 words
......weather -- is guzzling too much water, utility officials say. Katherine...officer for the citycounty Water Utility Authority, said the...pumped about 620 million gallons more than it should have...gallons a day -- down from 167 gallons last year. The goal was set...should have used 7.94 ...
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FIRST GALLONS BEGIN LONG TREK THROUGH GASTON PIPELINE ENGINEERS SAY THE...
The Virginian Pilot;
August 6, 1997 ;
Weintraub, Karen;
398 words
......4:30 p.m. Tuesday, the first gallons of water were sucked out of Lake Gaston...working right. Once 60 million gallons of water have been pumped in - in about...would draw up to 48 million gallons of water a day through the pipeline. Chesapeake...
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Can thirsty Villages avoid water fight?: The residential community says it...
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);
February 24, 2007 ;
787 words
......averages an extra 3.3 billion gallons of water each year. Lake County officials...Villages to use about 14.8 million gallons of water every day -- about 5.4 billion...pump an additional 8 million gallons of water a day. That utility previously...
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Water lines lose millions of gallons
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);
December 18, 2002 ;
CHARLES AUSTIN, STAFF WRITER;
398 words
...00-00-0000 Water lines lose millions of gallons -- 'Startled' Haledon mayor...borough is losing millions of gallons of water, as the town waits for a judicial...the town for about 300 million gallons. The water is purchased from the Passaic...
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Yuma's water system loses a billion gallons per year.
Sun (Yuma, AZ);
May 23, 2007 ;
619 words
......Gautreaux May 23--Roughly a billion gallons of water goes unaccounted for each year...pumped out more than 9 billion gallons of water, and an 11 or 12 percent loss...990-million-gallon loss --990 million gallons x water cost (2.5 cents per 1,000 gallons...
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When Water Goes Down The Tubes; Area Loses Millions of Gallons, Wasting...
The Washington Post;
August 29, 1999 ;
Eric Lipton;
787 words
......lose track of 66 million gallons of water on average each day -- more...an average of 135 million gallons is sent into the water system each day by the Army...uncompensated flow. The 66 million gallons of unbilled water is enough to fill about 1...
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Watch your gpf (gallons per flush): New toilets are going green to save...
Charleston Daily Mail;
January 22, 2007 ;
JURA KONCIUS;
787 words
......family of four uses 280 gallons of water a day indoors, and toilets...which reduced the volume of water used in an embalming from 120 gallons to an astonishing 5 gallons...dual-control model could save 7,000 gallons of water a year beyond what is already...
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Water supply steadily improving in Fairmont: Commission purchases 6,400...
Dominion Post (Morgantown, WV);
February 4, 2007 ;
311 words
......loss of nearly seven million gallons of water was discovered in the city's...spent $3,000 on more than 6,400 gallons of water from United Dairy. Sam's Club...donated a total of about 430 gallons of water. The water is available to the...
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City water is drained into wash: 357,000 gallons a day sluicing from...
AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ);
November 17, 2006 ;
657 words
......spilling up to 5 million gallons of drinkable water into a West Side wash for...is carrying up to 357,000 gallons of city-owned water drained for the construction...truck holds only about 6,000 gallons, said Tucson Water spokesman Mitch Basefsky...
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UTILITY DUMPING WATER RUNOFF OF MILLIONS OF GALLONS NEAR DIA CALLED...
Rocky Mountain News;
July 23, 2004 ;
News 4 Reporter Brian Maass, Special To The Rocky Mountain News;
370 words
......a sewer drain. That's 432,000 gallons of water down the drain every day. In...which holds more than 88 million gallons of water. News 4 learned the water dumping...and transport the millions of gallons of water being jettisoned. "I'm not sure...
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