groundwater aquifer

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aquifer
noun[C]
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/ˈæk.wɪ.fər/us
/ˈɑːkwə.fɚ/
a layer of rock, sand, or earth that contains water or allows water to pass ...
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Climate change, global resources, river quality andgroundwateraquiferquality are major challenges which threaten our common future.
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The site is listed due to trichloroethylene contamination of agroundwateraquiferused for local drinking water supplies.
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This ultimately ends up in streams, or worse, thegroundwateraquiferwhere drinking water is obtained.
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Themes include: bedrock geology, surficial geology, mineral resource data,groundwateraquiferdata, geophysical and geochemical data, bedrock topography and overburden thickness, plus many more themes.
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It is essentially a shallow artificial pond that is designed to infiltrate stormwater though permeable soils into thegroundwateraquifer.
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The dam provides flood control and allows water to be released gradually, so that as much of it as possible will seep into the soil and recharge thegroundwateraquifer.
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An important example is the extraction (appropriation) of resource units from a renewable resource stock such as fish, rangelands, groundwater aquifers, or forests.
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Such fluctuating conditions are usual in hydrothermal systems including their outcrops in ocean or terrestrial groundwater aquifers.
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Regulations with respect to petroleum product contamination are much more varied and often relate to underground storage tanks and groundwater aquifers.
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This is mainly due to the mining of groundwater aquifers without improving the replenishing mechanisms.
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Drinking water is often obtained from groundwater aquifers in temperate regions and therefore petroleum spills that contaminate groundwater represent a serious problem.
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Pricing reforms that will charge farmers the marginal cost of water will reduce water use, decrease runoff into groundwater aquifers, as well as release water for alternative uses.
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Hydraulic fracturing opponents fear that it can lead to contamination of groundwater aquifers, though the industry deems this highly unlikely.
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In the 1960s, more and more groundwater aquifers developed.
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A warmer and drier climate would lead to greater evaporation, as much as a 35% decrease in streamflow, and less water for recharging groundwater aquifers.
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This has led to the development of biochemical and biomolecular markers for assessing intrinsic biodegradation occurring in difficult to access groundwater aquifers.
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Well casing or cement bond failure in injection wells, have the potential to leak methane into groundwater aquifers.
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Over abstraction can lead to rivers drying up or the level of groundwater aquifers reducing unacceptably.
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Sea level rise brings risk to coastal groundwater aquifers, which increases vulnerability to saline intrusion (8).
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