Sentences with phrase «on underground water supplies»

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

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.

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

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.

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.