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Out of this total water availability 104 billion M3 was consumptively used, 139 billion M3 were losses and 31 billion M3 outflows to the sea.

Only about 14 percent of that was used consumptively, while the remainder was released to the sewer system or the environment.

It didn't help that for her death scene, Zeffirelli outdid himself in unnecessary extravagance, fashioning a spectacularly upholstered blue bedroom from which Violetta fled some 10 minutes into the act, to expire in another chamber that rose from the floor of the stage as Violetta stumbled consumptively downstairs.

Another question to be addressed is whether the fossils recovered at human habitation sites were intrusively or consumptively deposited.

If we can accept the notion that we are not put on this planet to have the easiest, most comfortable and consumptively pleasurable time possible, but that we each have a very small but necessary role to play, in concert with all other living matter, in the evolution of the universe, then we face a very real question.

One of the fundamental principles involved in determining the amount of water available for transfer is the amount that has been consumptively used in the past.

(74) The City could presumably remove additional water and be credited for water that it did not use consumptively.