Sentences with phrase «on underground water»

In the western United States, where corn must be irrigated because precipitation is less reliable, Schnoor said the strain on the underground water supply is even greater.

Ever since people figured out how to dig a hole, they have relied on this underground water.

Already, damage from the West's increasing reliance on underground water supplies is proliferating.

Long Island is a federally designated sole - source aquifer region, meaning the Island's nearly 3 million inhabitants rely entirely on the underground water for their supply.

Not exact matches

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

... 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?

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

The agreement would have included reducing the number of retention basins to five from eight, decreasing water storage around a Little League concession area, providing for more underground storm - water storage and restoring the fields on the park's southwest side.

The new plan would have included reducing the number of retention basins to five from eight, decreasing water storage around a Little League concession area, providing for more underground storm - water storage and restoring the fields on the park's southwest side.

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

The Cuomo administration is expected to decide shortly on whether drillers can begin using the controversial technique, which uses high volumes of water mixed with a small amount of chemicals to free natural gas from underground rock formations.

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.

Hydrofracking relies on a high - pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water pumped deep underground to break up gas - bearing rock formations, freeing gas to rise up the well to the surface.

The MARSIS radar, which will soon be deployed on Mars Express, should be able to detect underground liquid water but may have trouble differentiating between ice and rocky soil.

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.

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.

Vast underground water tanks occasionally catch sight of a relatively low - energy neutrino streaming out from the sun, but these «telescopes» can't gather enough neutrinos from distant objects to do much research on them, and such detectors often can't tell what direction the neutrino came from.

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.

Later, the state regulators established tough rules forcing housing developers in those management zones to prove they had access to 100 years» worth of water before they could get permits to build, and setting limits on how much of it could come from underground.

Extremophiles feeding on nonsolar energy sources show how alien life might similarly arise and thrive deep underground, far from surface water and sunlight.

In some places, water burbles up from underground, a sort of reverse percolation visible in asphalt parking lots even on sunny days.

Many scientific instruments rely on the ability to detect photons one at a time, from the huge tanks of water built deep underground to detect neutrinos from the Sun to the fluorescence detectors used in biological research.

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

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.

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.»

On a more typical day, however, the remote - controlled loaders dump ore loads into an underground mill, where the chunks of rock are ground down into fine silt that is mixed with water and pumped to the surface as a slurry.

«So it is essential we understand how the water falling on the surface finds its way to the aquifers deep underground.»

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

Then, in early January, earthquakes in Ohio were blamed on the disposal of that water in deep underground structures.

It also provides a solution to three puzzles: we now know why rivers formed where they are observed today; why underground reservoirs of water ice, until now considered anomalous, are located far from the poles of Mars; and why the Tharsis dome is today situated on the equator.

Although most of the water on Mars is locked up in ice, the possibility remains that some liquid water could exist in underground aquifers.

Europa, with its underground ocean of liquid water, has risen to one of the top slots on the list of places to search for potential extraterrestrial life.

MONGOLIA Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2: Plans, Issues and Risks An Overview of Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2 Mining Plans and some of the issues and risks associated with block cave underground mining, international metal price uncertainty, project power supply, and impacts on water resources used by herders.

And outside of cities, many people rely on underground septic tanks to store water from toilets and showers.

What Rhoden's team observed in their study was that during this process, several models predict that Charon's orbit around Pluto could have been highly eccentric, which would have caused severe tides on both celestial bodies, possibly leading to the formation of underground oceans of liquid water, similar to those that probably exist inside Europa.

Although the initial three - year phase of Deep Earth Imaging has only just begun, CSIRO has been working on projects relevant to the underground detection and description of water resources for some time.

It's possible that water from the underground ocean itself could be forced through Europa's ice shell to erupt on the surface.

Between the evidence of past flowing water on Mars, Titan's hydrocarbon lakes, Europa's underground ocean, and Enceladus, it seems increasingly probable we'll find life somewhere else in the solar system.

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.

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.

The infamous water fall representing the Pardu Khola stream vanishing underground about 2kms southwest on the road to Butwal.

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.

Today, funneling water into underground holding tanks allows it to eventually percolate into the soil and remain on site.

A cornerstone of our safety policy is ensuring that transportation providers across all modes — on roads, rails, water, or in the air, over land and underground — employ operators who are 100 percent drug - and alcohol - free.

If all the water used to irrigate the crops fell from the sky as rain or was taken from rivers or underground sources in sustainable amounts we'd be in good shape, but sadly and increasingly, that is not the case (see sidebar for more on this).

Immediately after, we threw on our bikinis, trunks and life vests in order to explore Yaxmuul, a natural underground pool with pristine and surprisingly warm water.

Only accessible by tour, this underground river with crystal clear waters is surrounded on all sides by crystals and stalactite formations.

For those in search of a memorable adventure, few things can compare to floating on an inner tube through a dark underground cavern filled with water and ancient Mayan ruins.

Charles found that the rocks along the underground river were a bit hard on his feet, and sandals or water shoes would make standing up in, and getting out of, the underground river much easier.