Sentences with phrase «underground water reserves»

As a result, India's underground water reserves are plunging, forcing farmers to drill deeper every year.

To make matters worse, the pipeline would cross almost the entire length of the Ogallala aquifer, one of the world's largest underground water reserves, from South Dakota to Texas.

But as well as public resistance, the dumps are meeting scientific opposition because of their potential to cause massive, long - term damage to underground water reserves.

Not exact matches

Both countries also have enough water and specialized drilling rigs to support fracking, which involves pumping huge quantities of liquid and sand underground to crack open rocks and release energy reserves.

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.

Half of the near - distilled - quality reclaimed water is injected into a saltwater barrier — an underground supply of freshwater that prevents brine from creeping inland from the sea and contaminating fresh reserves.

From a model of Malta's underground reserves, French government scientists recently concluded that water quality would continue to deter - iorate unless pumping rates are reduced by at least 10 per cent.

The authors propose that the water detected in the RSL is sucked from the thin Martian atmosphere, rather than supplied by underground reserves.

Living in Belize, you can enjoy the great outdoors, nature reserves, and all manner of adventure activities (such as a hiking through the jungle, floating through an underground river, or parasailing over the crystal - clear waters of the Caribbean Sea.

Located about a mile underground, the formation's shale contains natural gas reserves and highly saline water laced with salts, metals and radioactive elements.

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