Sentences with phrase «underground water table»

In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas — three leading grain - producing states — the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 meters (100 feet).

In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas — three leading grain - producing states — the underground water table has dropped by more than 30 meters (100 feet).

Under the North China Plain, which produces at least one fourth of the country's grain, the fall in the underground water table of 1.5 meters (5 feet) per year of the early 1990s has recently increased to 2 — 3 meters per year in some areas.

On Vanuatu's Tegua island in the South Pacific, a coastal village of 100 people has been relocated inland as erosion and rising seas raised the underground water table, flooding dwellings and overflowing pit toilets.

Intrusion of the salt water into the underground water table.

This unseasonal rain we are currently experiencing is seen as a much welcome relief because Bali is so dangerously close to running out of water these days, the islands underground water table (and food crops) now desperately needs every last drop of water it can get.

Diane Thomas - Lincoln explores the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world's largest underground water tables, through landscape paintings and collage.

When countries first detected falling underground water tables, it was logical to expect that governments in affected countries would quickly raise water use efficiency and stabilize population in order to stabilize aquifers.

Like a multi level parking structure, they could build a stacked hydroponic farm building and draw the water from underground water tables for Aggregation systems, and for a geo - thermo energy source to heat it at night and for electricity.

Not exact matches

And if your complaint is that there's water under the earth, look into artesian wells, underground rivers, the water table and the recent discovery of a great amount of water deep in the earth's crust.

THE Red Planet could have a water table hidden underground, despite satellite data suggesting otherwise.

The seasoning is made by evaporating sea water and is now a popular alternative to regular table salt, which comes from underground deposits.

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.

Without rain to irrigate croplands, growers repeatedly turn to underground aquifers, but the overpumping has taken a toll, causing water tables to drop dramatically.

But while they were digging, it became clear that the water table was too high, making it impossible to create an underground space.

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.