Sentences with phrase «underground water reservoirs»

«We discovered an underground water reservoir in the Atacama Desert in Chile,» country manager for Salinity UK Tony Greenwood said.

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Among many recent sustainability initiatives, the Park District of Oak Park is planning the installation of a cistern (underground reservoir for holding water) at multiple parks.

But even as the drought began and then worsened, with surface water vanishing, the West dug in and doubled down — replacing dwindling reservoirs with new water pumped from underground.

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.

An analysis of earthquakes in the area around the Salton Sea Geothermal Field in southern California has found a strong correlation between seismic activity and operations for production of geothermal power, which involve pumping water into and out of an underground reservoir.

It has long been understood that earthquakes can be induced by impoundment of water in reservoirs, surface and underground mining, withdrawal of fluids and gas from the subsurface, and injection of fluids into underground formations.

An alternative technique, called solubility trapping, pumps the CO2 into brine held within the rock, to create an underground reservoir of carbonated water.

To fulfill high production demands, water is drawn from underground reservoirs (aquifers) in the northern provinces and used for irrigation more rapidly than it is replenished.

Lakes may form when meteorite impacts heat ice in the crust or when underground reservoirs of water kept liquid by geothermal heat leak onto the surface.

Its plan calls for stopping the diversion of water by filling in more than 500 miles of canals and levees, creating new surface water reservoirs, and drilling more than 300 wells to store billions of gallons of fresh water in an underground aquifer.

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.

Wind down from your zip lining rush with a dip in these fresh waters, fed from an underground reservoir.

A cenote is a natural underground reservoir of water.

I have always created spaces and places from childhood of tree houses and root cellar uses to leaving home during high school and living underground in hill top water reservoir.

Keystone XL would run on top of the Ogallala Aquifer, a vast multi-state underground reservoir that provides water to millions of Americans, including many Native American tribes, across the midwest.

Any leftover carbon dioxide will be stored in a deep underground salt - water reservoir, called a saline aquifer.

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

Newly constructed reservoirs above ground can offset the net loss of water underground.

Such disputes have involved the design or construction of airports, theme parks, subdivisions, condominiums, universities, public schools, homes, highways, pipelines, bridges, retirement and assisted living facilities, retail developments, underground utilities, dams and water reservoirs.