Sentences with phrase «underground water pressure»

Park district officials say underground water pressure has caused cracking and leaks in the pool that require costly maintenance.

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The water for Icelandic Glacial travels directly from the underground spring into the bottling facility, which maintains a positive air pressure to impede the outside air.

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 state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock by blasting a mix of water and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

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.

Water injection used in fracking to break up underground, porous rock formations can increase underground pressures, lubricate faults and cause earthquakes — a process known as injection - induced seismicity, the USGS said in a joint statement with the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

They are linked by rivers that form when melting ice expands the lakes, increasing pressure under the ice cap and causing underground channels of water and mud to squirt out.

Fracking, which injects liquids underground at high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from hard to reach places, can contaminate water (SN Online: 10/12/15) and air, due to chemicals used in the process.

Another might be higher - than - expected pressure from underground water that pushes the plates apart, allowing them to slip easily, just as an engine with high oil pressure works more efficiently than one with low pressure.

The activity begins deep in a geyser's underground plumbing (video), where high - pressure water boils, sending bubbles up through a narrow column of water within the overlying rock.

Ingredients 75 % Pyrophyllite Clay, 25 % Activated Charcoal Pyrophyllite is formed entirely differently from the other clays, in that it began as an underground boiling lava soup that decomposed into a clay through interaction with deep underground aquifer water, steam and pressure.

By running the irrigation lines with built - in reverse osmosis membranes underground, the proposed irrigation system would use the pressure gradient supplied by the plants» roots to desalinize the water without the high amount of energy consumption usually associated with desalination.

The government hopes to revive domestic natural gas production with the technology that has transformed the energy picture in the United States — horizontal drilling into deep underground shale, and high - pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals to create fissures in the rock to release the gas.

After the water is diverted, it passes through a head race tunnel of about 11.3 km and is delivered to the underground power house through a steel lined pressure shaft.

Urban dwellers have come under pressure to use less water, and underground reserves are being rapidly depleted.

In this process, water is pumped at high pressures to fracture underground hot rock reservoirs similar to technology used in natural gas hydraulic fracturing.

As part of its survey, the USGS excluded areas of the country that are considered freshwater sources, and limited their assessment to rock layers at depths at which the carbon dioxide would be under sufficient pressure to remain in a liquid state, which would help the carbon dioxide mix in with the briny water found underground.

Hydraulic fracturing sends «huge volumes of toxic fluids» deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims.

We believe that fracking poses a tremendous threat to agriculture, to our drinking water, and to our climate, because when you are injecting millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand, four or five miles underground at very high pressure and breaking open the rock and releasing gas there's all sorts of contamination that can happen.

Mr. Fox is preparing a sequel to «Gasland,» which has contributed to widespread concern about fracking, a method of mining that uses large volumes of water and chemicals under high pressure to free gas deposits from underground shale.

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