Sentences with phrase «in deep aquifers»

And the 2.5 percent that is freshwater is locked up either in soil, remote snowpacks and glaciers or in deep aquifers.

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Cadiz is a private corporation sitting on roughly 70 square miles of property in the Mojave Desert over a deep aquifer.

American Premium Water Corporation (OTC: HIPH) produces bottled water under the LALPINA brand name.LALPINA WATER is sourced from a high - altitude aquifer deep in the Blue Ridge and the Blue Mountains.

Water for the recipe is sourced from a mile - deep, limestone aquifer that hasn't seen the light of day in over 6,000 years.

We added other national brands to our lineup: Nestlé Pure Life ® Natural Spring Water, which comes from deep aquifers on our properties in Aberfoyle, Ontario, and Hope, British Columbia, and Montclair ® Natural Spring Water, which also emanates from springs on our properties in Canada.

The study also should marry the two areas Cuomo identified as his most challenging — the environment and terrorism — by evaluating whether the Lloyd aquifer, our deepest and most pure source of water, should be considered a strategic asset that must be reserved as much as possible for emergency use, for example, in the event New York City's water supply is disrupted.

A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

But, Levy says, in recent years there has been an increasing appreciation for salts and how they might create intragranular films of water: Instead of the deep briny lakes or aquifers one might find on Earth, scientists are now looking to «small pockets of briny soils that resist freezing and are chockablock with nutrients.»

Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

Some of the power generated would be used to compress the CO2 and pump it deep underground to be permanently stored in saline aquifers.

That means the contaminants found in Pavillion would have had to work their way from a sink not only into the well but deep into the aquifer at significant concentrations in order to be detected.

At a demonstration project in Japan, even a magnitude 6.8 earthquake didn't shake injected CO2 loose from a deep saline aquifer; the wellheads did not so much as leak.

Overall, pesticides were less common in so - called groundwater, such as that in wells, although 33 percent of deep wells that tap aquifers contained one or more of the chemicals.

Advocates said the approach could entomb waste in stable rock deep in Earth, far from underwater aquifers (see graphic, below).

Such rock, known as basalt, might be better than other sites, such as deep saline aquifers or nearly empty oil wells, because the rock not only stores CO2 but also over a relatively short period of years forms carbonate minerals out of it — in other words, limestone.

Pilot projects in Algeria, Japan, and Norway indicate that CO2 can be stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep coal seams, and saline aquifers.

Yet a 2011 study in Wisconsin found that human viruses had managed to infiltrate deep aquifers, probably moving downward through layers believed to be a permanent seal.

The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.

Ingredients 75 % Pyrophyllite Clay, 25 % Activated Charcoal Pyrophyllite is formed entirely differently from the other clays, in that it began as an underground boiling lava soup that decomposed into a clay through interaction with deep underground aquifer water, steam and pressure.

With deep aquifer discharge primarily regulated by geological pore spaces (in addition to pressure heads), the slow and steady discharge of these older waters affects sea level rise on century and millennial timeframes.

In contrast to La Nina induced shallow - aquifer effects, deep aquifers have been filled with meltwater from the last Ice Age, and that water is slowly and steadily seeping back into the oceans today.

Hydrologists concerned with sustainable groundwater supplies and drinking water contamination, have been in the forefront of analyzing the volume and ages of the world's groundwater, providing greater insight into deep aquifer effects.

But in the coastal area, the salinity distributions in ground water and replenishment of water in deep and shallow aquifers are regulated by complex hydrogeolog - ical phenomena.

Any leftover carbon dioxide will be stored in a deep underground salt - water reservoir, called a saline aquifer.

electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

The research needs that have high priority in establishing the technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of large - scale capture and disposal of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- from electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, more» system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

If you study this diagram it is fairly clear that the fractures only affect a small part of the deepest rocks, and steel casing and cement in the well protects the aquifers.»

In Australia carbon dioxide could theoretically be sequestered in depleted oil or gas fields (not expected to be sufficiently depleted until 2030), deep underground unmineable coal seams, or deep saline aquiferIn Australia carbon dioxide could theoretically be sequestered in depleted oil or gas fields (not expected to be sufficiently depleted until 2030), deep underground unmineable coal seams, or deep saline aquiferin depleted oil or gas fields (not expected to be sufficiently depleted until 2030), deep underground unmineable coal seams, or deep saline aquifers.

The survey reported that under Hebei Province in the heart of the North China Plain, the average level of the deep aquifer was dropping nearly 3 meters (10 feet) per year.

In these new plants, the CO2 can be removed, compressed into an oil - like fluid, then injected underground in abandoned gas and oil wells or deep saline aquiferIn these new plants, the CO2 can be removed, compressed into an oil - like fluid, then injected underground in abandoned gas and oil wells or deep saline aquiferin abandoned gas and oil wells or deep saline aquifers.

«Generally, as you go deeper in an aquifer system, the water tends to be older and the longer it's been in contact with the surrounding sediment or bedrock material, it can leach out material from this rock.

«In general, areas of the state where limestone is close to surface or areas with deeper limestone — but with a conducive configuration of water table elevation, stratigraphy and aquifer characteristics — have increased sinkhole activity.»