Sentences with phrase «underground water flows»

It also points out that mining will increasingly occur above or below seams that have already been excavated, raising questions about safety and the disruption of underground water flows.

Scientists discuss how agriculture and irrigation are changing underground water flows, rerouting them through contaminated ground

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.

Not exact matches

-- If your stream be some morning lost (in the underground earth), who then can supply you with clear - flowing water?»

Rainforests act as natural water filters, keeping pollution and debris from flowing into water supplies; they also slow down rainwater, sending it into underground reserves.

By sitting back and enjoying the rare confluence of two once - in - a-lifetime players, like water flowing underground.

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

The underground flow of contaminated water can not be contained within the borders of a county.

The more water is extracted from underground, the harder it becomes to restore the region's rivers and reservoirs — some of which no longer flow through the summer — simultaneously sucking them dry from above and below.

What water isn't sipped up by his own plants flows underground downhill to benefit his neighbors, and ultimately to provide a steady flow of water back into the river itself.

Extensive mining and agriculture in west central Florida have lowered the water table enough to turn springs into sinkholes along the Peace River, which each day loses about 11 million gallons, or 8 percent of its flow, to these underground caverns.

A series of drains and underground barriers — including a $ 325 - million * supposedly impermeable «wall» of frozen soil — was also constructed to keep water from flowing into the reactors and the ocean.

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.

Rebecca Neumann of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues, cracked the problem after seven years spent plotting the chemistry and underground flows of water beneath villages near Dhaka.

He will enter it all into a computer model that simulates water flow and nitrogen transport under various irrigation and weather conditions, so that researchers can get the full picture of what is happening underground.

If the ISA binds to radionuclides, such as uranium, then the radionuclides will become far more soluble and more likely to flow out of the underground vaults to surface environments, where they could enter drinking water or the food chain.

Pumping out this water has changed the courses of underground streams, so previously clean water now flows through arsenic - laden sediments, and wells that used to be pure in villages once healthy suddenly pump out death.

To improve models for drilling, hydraulic fracturing and underground storage of carbon dioxide, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists used neutrons to understand how water flows through fractured rock.

The latest data from the Dawn space probe points to underground ice flows and a water vapour atmosphere.

The conventional picture is that, in the last step, the carbon dioxide flows underground where it encounters water and forms carbonic acid, leading to mineral formations that trap the carbon.

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.

When this superheated water rises from underground, it passes and often partially melts old lava flow deposits of rhyolite, a volcanic rock of silica - rich composition.

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...

When it comes to water in particular, they have seen how the effects of tree planting - and cutting - can reach for hundreds of kilometres through rivers and underground flows.

At the Tabacon thermal hot springs, geothermal - warmed mineral waters flow from deep underground, forming natural pools and small waterfalls.

Clean natural mineral rich water fed from underground springs flows throughout the grounds and is collected for daily for.

Water flows over, under, and through the park, and there is an extensive underground stream network, feeding north into the Sibun.

Another remarkable place to visit is the five mile long underground river at Puerto Princesa which flows directly into the sea meaning that the lower reaches of the river are subject to tidal changes of water level.

Watch the water that disappeared at the Medicine Lake flowing into the Maligne Canyon through the underground cave system from the Fourth Bridge.

Inland from the beach, hidden rivers flow beneath the jungle, giving snorkelers a unique chance to drift in underground passages filled with clear water and festooned with glitter stalactites.

The water in the Blue Hole is part of an underground cave system that flows into the Sibun River.

Water from Medicine Lake flows into the Maligne River and drops down the canyon, creating an underground river flow that is joined by various other streams.

The underground stream flows out of the cave and it's necessary to take a short swim into the cave (water depth is about 12 feet).

Using the height of the building to create air flow for «passive air con» aided by cooling from underground water sources — and maximum use of natural light through translucent walls.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that its scientists, in conjunction with colleagues from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), have used sounding radar — developed for a mission to Mars — to successfully locate underground aquifers, probe variations in the water table, and identify locations where water flowed into and out of the aquifers.

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.

A World Bank study indicates that China is mining underground water in three adjacent river basins in the north — those of the Hai, which flows through Beijing and Tianjin; the Yellow; and the Huai, the next river south of the Yellow.

OFG techniques reduce local impacts of runoff by allowing water to instead soak into the ground to recharge underground aquifers and restore local stream flows.

The World Bank study indicates that China is mining underground water in three adjacent river basins in the north — those of the Hai, which flows through Beijing and Tianjin; the Yellow; and the Huai, the next river south of the Yellow.

In the process of fracking, the «toxic soup» of chemicals used to break apart shale rock can leach into underground aquifers, wells and other drinking sources, contaminating the water lines that flow into hundreds or thousands of local businesses and homes.

The Saw Mill River flows 23 miles from its headwaters before emptying into the Hudson River in Yonkers, N.Y.. For nearly 100 years, the last half - mile passed through an underground flume built to protect downtown Yonkers from flooding and from the mix of human and industrial pollution poisoning the river's waters.