Wetland systems are also less energy-dependent, lessening dependence on electrical infrastructure, and require simpler maintenance since the system largely relies on the ecological action of microbes and plants for their efficacy.
"Are we making improvements in lessening dependence on oil?
It will lessen dependence on government and may encourage people to save more.
Proponents say a high-speed rail system could help reduce congestion at California airports, lessen dependence on foreign oil and decrease greenhouse gases.
Powering cars with corn and burning wood to make electricity might seem like a way to lessen dependence on fossil fuels and help solve the climate crisis.
If successful, the program would be repeated across Putumayo and beyond, lessening dependence on the aerial spraying that will still be used to destroy large coca fields.
In 2005 the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline opened to pump Azerbaijani oil to a terminal in Turkey to lessen dependence on piplines through Russia.
The president campaigned for the Republican energy plan today by looking over prototype vehicles on the South Lawn of the White House and saying that "technologies developed by American ingenuity" would help lessen dependence on imported oil.
Germany's lessening dependence on the euro area economy appears to have given Mrs. Merkel more leeway to be assertive with her European allies, clashing repeatedly, for example, with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on issues like Greece and Libya.
The federal health care law, which is likely to reduce payments for in-patient care, as well as changing demographics and a lessening dependence on hospitals, are converging into a death knell for longstanding health institutions.
