Sentences with phrase «massive underground water»

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The relatively new technique, also called fracking, injects massive amounts of water and chemicals deep underground to extract oil and gas.

This massive development has led to more than 3,900 brine spills, mostly coming from faulty pipes built to transport fracked wells» flowback water from on - site holding containers to nearby injection wells where it will be disposed underground.»

But as well as public resistance, the dumps are meeting scientific opposition because of their potential to cause massive, long - term damage to underground water reserves.

The trouble is that its two design options are a 200,000 - tonne underground water tank built by expanding the Homestake mine in South Dakota to form an enormous cavern 100 metres tall and 65 metres wide, or a smaller but still massive detector using 34,000 tonnes of liquid argon.

The ambitious program would divert water from the Sacramento River above the delta, sending it through massive underground tunnels to provide water for two - thirds of the state's population, from San Jose to San Diego, and thousands of farms.

It uses a variety of tools including VERITAS, AUGER and COUPP — dedicated telescopes, water tanks and underground «bubble chambers» — to observe known particles and to search for those that are so far only hypothetical, such as the dark - matter WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles).

The project could be considered a much bigger cousin of two other massive water projects, Tokyo's G - Cans underground waterway and Venice's MOSE flood control system.