Sentences with phrase «excessive water withdrawals»

But the creek lacks safeguards to protect it from excessive water withdrawals for development and energy extraction.

This usually occurs in coastal and estuarine areas due to reducing land - based influence (e.g., either from reduced runoff and associated groundwater recharge, or from excessive water withdrawals from aquifers) or increasing marine influence (e.g., relative sea - level rise).

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These measures were to include a water management framework that protects river flows from excessive tar sands water withdrawals.

When well water has dangerous levels of arsenic it may be from excessive withdrawals that are raising deep naturally arsenic containing waters toward the well point.