Sentences with phrase «largest underground water»

It has more miles of river than all other states in the United States and even has the country's largest underground water supply, which is the Ogalala Aquifer.

Diane Thomas - Lincoln explores the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world's largest underground water tables, through landscape paintings and collage.

To make matters worse, the pipeline would cross almost the entire length of the Ogallala aquifer, one of the world's largest underground water reserves, from South Dakota to Texas.

Not exact matches

The country's water loss is now below 10 % due to the use of algorithms that predict where leaks will occur, underground pipe repair tools, and a sonar - like system that pinpoints the locations of tiny leaks that have the potential to grow larger.

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

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.

Leslie Rosenberg's attempt to understand the universe resembles a makeshift home hot - water heater tank, capped with some wires and shoved into a large, underground refrigerator.

One explanation may be that as high - pressure pockets from wastewater injections continue to spread underground like a drop of water on a paper towel, they encounter new and sometimes larger faults.

One of the state's largest spills to date occurred in 2014, when an underground pipeline leak caused approximately 1 million gallons of brine to flow down a ravine and into Bear Den Bay, about a quarter mile upstream from a drinking water intake on Lake Sakakawea.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

Fracking involves injecting large volumes of water, sand and toxic chemicals underground with explosive force that fractures the rock and helps it release trapped hydrocarbons.

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, harbors an underground ocean containing more water than all the oceans on Earth.

However, photographs and other data from spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that water once flowed on the surface of the red planet and is still present in large quantities underground.

Activities in scope of licensing are: climbing, abseiling or scrambling over natural terrain and cliffs; trekking on foot, horse or cycle over remote hills or mountains; watersports on the sea, tidal waters, large lakes or white water; exploring natural caves underground.

This is a large underground gravel pit that collects water from the roof or drive.

Large water mains, fire hydrants, underground power now energized, and fiber optic phone lines await our Telegraph Point buyers.

The lots all have underground power, city water and will be included in the HOA of the new lots we are getting ready to start developing on the North side of Placencia Caye and will have access to all the associated amenities, like 24 hour shuttle boat, use of development golf carts on the mainland, large community pool, bar, workout room and security.

Blue Creek Cave (Hokeb Ha in Quiche Maya, meaning «where the waters come out)-RRB- is located in the Belize's Toledo District, and is believed to be part of one of the largest underground cave systems in the world.

Cenote Ik» kil is a large and perfectly round cenote situated deep underground, with lots of long tree roots hanging from the ground level all the way down into the water and sheer rock walls on all sides.

Discover the most spectacular underwater ocean reefs or dive in the largest underground fresh water system in the world!

Cool off and practice snorkel in the cove's beautiful waters or swim through a network of natural channels that circulate under the Yucatan peninsula, better known as the world's largest underground river system.

Other than enjoying the amazing white - sand and crystal - clear water beaches in the area, you will be able to visit fantastic attractions such as the renowned Cuevas del Drach caves, featuring one of the world s largest underground lakes.

And now the lowlife narcissistic psychopaths (like the IPA and Dr John Nicol mentioned above) want to build the worlds largest coal mine ever in QLD while destroying the GBR and existing top grade farmlands and destroying the underground water supply permanently.

Mr. Fox is preparing a sequel to «Gasland,» which has contributed to widespread concern about fracking, a method of mining that uses large volumes of water and chemicals under high pressure to free gas deposits from underground shale.

For one thing, saving large open spaces protects the local aquifer, the underground layer of rock that stores rainwater and melting snow, and our prime source of drinking water.