Sentences with phrase «by ground water extraction»

The only places experiencing an APPARENT rise are where there is subsidence induced by ground water extraction.

This suggests that the subsidence is primarily caused by ground water extraction for industrial and agricultural use, respectively.

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Wherever a forest is converted to a grassland, or a grassland to desert, or barren ground is created, maximum skin surface temperatures rise by 10 to 40 °F.8 Also to quench the thirst of growing populations, extraction of subsurface waters has lowered the water table.9 As the water table drops below the reach of roots, soil moisture is reduced and plants die.

To reconstruct equilibrium sea level changes from tide gauges, account must be made of vertical shifts of the land, caused by geological processes or land use (e.g. ground water extraction).