Sentences with phrase «of underground water»

The longer conflicts go on, the greater the risk of contamination of underground water that could destroy water resources for decades to come.

The dramatic loss of momentum in irrigation expansion coupled with the depletion of underground water resources suggests that peak water may now be on our doorstep.

Surface mining techniques are even more damaging, both in regions such as Central Appalachia, where mountaintop removal methods are deployed, and in deserts and prairies, where arid conditions make reclamation and restoration of underground water supplies difficult.

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.

It's the cost of replacing all 550 miles of underground water pipes, based on an industry average of $ 1.32 million a mile.

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.

The tandem of satellites — called GRACE - 1 and GRACE - 2 — measure minute shifts in Earth's gravity to chart flows of mass across the planet, such as the unexpectedly rapid melt of polar ice sheets and the drawdown of underground water reservoirs called aquifers.

An abundance of underground water rises out of the 1.6 - hectare dark, fertile soil, filling two dams and providing the vast gardens of water.

An abundance of underground water rises out of the 1.6 - hectare dark, fertile soil, filling two dams a...

For some days, they joined forces with the «Along the River» participants measuring the flow of underground water in the forest of Praboure in the Region of Auvergne in France...

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».

Overall, 40.4 gigalitres of underground water from the Condamine Alluvium aquifer in Southern Queensland has to be returned to environment under Queensland Water Plan to meet the Murray - Darling Basin Plan's sustainable diversion limits.

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.

Crops like corn, rice and wheat thrive best in these drier regions, but rainfall is limited, and stores of underground water are diminishing.

The chief scientist in the environment ministry, Yeshayahu Bar - Or, was quoted in The Economist in June as predicting that global warming would cause 35 percent less rainfall, contamination of underground water sources and pollution of the Sea of Galilee, this nation's largest source of fresh water.

Inspection suggests that, instead, it was at the top of an underground water table, Squyres reported.

At this pit on Mars, the steep slope at the northern edge (toward the top of the image) exposes a cross-section of a thick sheet of underground water ice.

Magi Forces managed to take control of the underground water channels.

Due to the relatively high temperature of underground water the efficiency of a Water Source Heat Pump typically exceeds 500 %.

Impervious surfaces such as roads, parking lots, and roofs associated with sprawling urban development significantly change natural river flow patterns and the recharge of underground water supplies.

Hydrogeologists research groundwater systems through field studies to determine the location, size and movement of underground water reservoirs.

They uproot every metre of underground watering systems.

Power companies are rapidly shifting away from coal to cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, but the use of hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas deposits from shale formations has resulted in contamination of underground water, which harms rural communities that rely on well water.

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

He furthered stated that the first and second aquifers of underground water were the worst hit and that the state government was taking adequate steps to ensure the preservation and conservation of all the aquifers of underground water to ensure safety of lives, provision of portable water that is of good quality and a water sector that is sustainable and viable.

Although this mining of underground water is taking a toll on U.S. grain production, irrigated land accounts for only one fifth of the U.S. grain harvest, compared with close to three fifths of the harvest in India and four fifths in China.