Sentences with phrase «in underground water»

According to WWF, «unsustainable water use practices in agricultural production are linked with the drying of lakes and rivers, declines in underground water levels, and rising soil infertility from a build up in salinity.»

Under the North China Plain, which produces at least one fourth of the country's grain, the fall in the underground water table of 1.5 meters (5 feet) per year of the early 1990s has recently increased to 2 — 3 meters per year in some areas.

When you get hot, abseil into a cave for a refreshing dip in the underground water system.

Overground the land is flat and elevated just 50m above sea level, therefore all water sources run in this underground water network.

It would be banned inside New York City's sprawling upstate watershed, as well as inside a watershed used by Syracuse, and in underground water sources used by other cities and towns.

Not exact matches

The area underlying Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is the epicenter of a boom in American natural gas produced through hydraulic fracturing, the process of injecting water, minerals and chemicals underground to free oil and gas from rock formations.

USIC is the largest underground telecommunications, power and water utility line locating and damage prevention company in North America.

-- If your stream be some morning lost (in the underground earth), who then can supply you with clear - flowing water?»

And if your complaint is that there's water under the earth, look into artesian wells, underground rivers, the water table and the recent discovery of a great amount of water deep in the earth's crust.

... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?

Most of the remaining 1 percent of the earth's water supply is found in underground aquifers which are recharged by rainwater seeping through the soil.

Risser says that in the western Plains states, the underground water supplies are being used ten times more quickly than they can be replenished.

In addition, too heavy reliance on irrigation, especially in arid and semiarid regions, threatens the supplies of underground wateIn addition, too heavy reliance on irrigation, especially in arid and semiarid regions, threatens the supplies of underground watein arid and semiarid regions, threatens the supplies of underground water.

This is happening to the aquifer underlying the great plains of the United States, to the artesian basin of Central Australia and possibly also to the great underground stores of water in the Sahara desert fed from the Atlas Saharile mountains in north western Algeria.

Here in China, Water is living her life in fear, under the close watch of the Chinese government for practicing Christianity at Beijing's underground Shouwang Church.

«We discovered an underground water reservoir in the Atacama Desert in Chile,» country manager for Salinity UK Tony Greenwood said.

These flakey salt crystals are from the ancient saline waters sourced from underground aquifers in Australia's Murray - Darling Basin.

Parker says the bottled water industry uses 650 million litres of underground water a year, just 0.001 per cent of Australia's national supply, «a pretty small drop in the proverbial bucket».

McLaren Vale was the the first region in Australia to declare and manage its underground water resource so that it is self - replenishing.

Organic Burst is organically grown underground in mineral - rich waters with lots of sunshine.

Keeping their talent all in the family, four of the five Griffin sisters have been bottling pure, natural water sourced from underground limestone springs at the family owned Highbridge Springs...

By sitting back and enjoying the rare confluence of two once - in - a-lifetime players, like water flowing underground.

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Park district officials say underground water pressure has caused cracking and leaks in the pool that require costly maintenance.

The Park District has been pushing for the school district to restore those fields and for more underground water storage in the park at Prospect and Chicago Avenues.

In a gesture of contempt for protesters, Nestlé's sponsorship deal for the London Marathon this year includes renaming Canada Water underground station after its bottled water bWater underground station after its bottled water bwater brand.

Fracking, as the technique is known, is the use of chemical - laced water injected deep underground to create fissures in underground rock formations and release natural gas and oil.

Over 20 years, that 10 percent increase would add up to $ 44 million in new money — enough to replace about 33 miles of underground water pipes, according to the same calculation the mayor used in her request to Cuomo.

Suffolk residents are paying two - and - a-half times the national average in taxes — more than two billion dollars since 1998 to preserve land and protect underground water supplies.

The process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to extract gas underneath, is seen as a potential economic boon for the upstate region, but environmentalists fear it could damage public water supplies.

The SGEIS, or Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, is a review of potential regulations for hydrofracking, a natural gas extraction process that involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to access the gas underneath.

In the early study draft, author Paul Heisig noted that gas «drilling, extraction, transport via pipelines, and underground storage» could inadvertently introduce methane into drinking water supplies.

«In the early study draft, author Paul Heisig noted that gas «drilling, extraction, transport via pipelines, and underground storage» could inadvertently introduce methane into drinking water supplies,» Capital New York's Scott Waldman wrote.

Use of injection wells - sending the flowback water back thousands of feet underground away from aquifers - has been common in more developed shale formations in the South and West.

Three main water quality issues were cited by Mr. Cuomo during his 20 - minute speech: an underground plume left by Northrup Grumman in Nassau county that measures one - by - three miles wide, runoff from mulching facilities on Long Island (of which there are 65) and saltwater intrusion.

The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

For the most part, city officials went underground when news broke that the water department was negotiating a deal to sell a maximum of 1.75 million gallons of water a day to a national bottling company to be headquartered at a new plant in Lake Katrine.

For instance, a 1665 illustration drawn by Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher depicts Earth's water systems as an underground network that churned with guidance from a large ball of fire in the planet's center, Cyr says.

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.

Oil and gas companies developing fields in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and North Dakota rely on a process called hydraulic fracturing, which produces natural gas by blasting water and chemicals into energy - rich rock formations deep underground.

During a cold snap in 2010, farmers in the state strawberry capital of Plant City pumped millions of gallons of underground water onto their crops to save them — but ended up causing dozens of sinkholes.

Cleanup of Hinkley's contaminated water — an underground plume that is two miles long and one mile wide — began in the late 1980s and is continuing.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

This pollution also finds its way into underground aquifers that supply our drinking water, so reducing it is a human health measure and could also save municipalities millions of dollars a year in drinking water treatment facilities and operational expenses.

Other human activites linked to seismic activity include hydraulic fracturing, in which a water mixture gets pumped underground to break up rocks and release gas, and fluid withdrawal, which can refer to the withdrawal of oil and gas, groundwater or hot water / steam for geothermal power, the USGS says.

But even as the drought began and then worsened, with surface water vanishing, the West dug in and doubled down — replacing dwindling reservoirs with new water pumped from underground.

In 2009, Jay Famiglietti, now a scientist researching underground water in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, set out to quantify just how much groundwater had been lost over timIn 2009, Jay Famiglietti, now a scientist researching underground water in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, set out to quantify just how much groundwater had been lost over timin partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, set out to quantify just how much groundwater had been lost over timin Pasadena, California, set out to quantify just how much groundwater had been lost over time.

In recent years, the withdrawals have taken on even more importance: At least 60 percent of California's water now comes from underground, some researchers say.

What is needed to successfully exploit all that energy, according to Nevada geologist James Faulds, is investment in more detailed geologic mapping, three - dimensional modeling of underground water flows, and testing of water chemistry that can indicate the temperature of subsurface waters.