Sentences with phrase «underground water which»

The Nusa Penida Renewable Energy provide cheap electricity for the inhabitants of Nusa Penida Island and the windmill is also used to pump up the underground water which is located 200 meter under the hill, providing cheap healthy water for the community.

We use underground water which is filtered and sanitised through sophisticated and approved systems.

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Sea - level rise is also threatening coastal water supplies, which often draw their freshwater from underground aquifers.

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.

Most of the remaining 1 percent of the earth's water supply is found in underground aquifers which are recharged by rainwater seeping through the soil.

Another example of this principle is the extent to which water is being taken out of underground stores (aquifers) many times faster than it is being replaced by nature.

May 15, 2013 — A UK - Canadian team of scientists has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life.

Dr Sexton also has high hopes for a bottled water brand called AQUAessence which has a high PH level because its source is underground limestone caves near Mt Gambier.

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.

The Cuomo administration is expected to decide shortly on whether drillers can begin using the controversial technique, which uses high volumes of water mixed with a small amount of chemicals to free natural gas from underground rock formations.

The process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to extract gas underneath, is seen as a potential economic boon for the upstate region, but environmentalists fear it could damage public water supplies.

He said while some hyrofracking chemicals are toxic and carcinogenic, public exposure to such chemicals is manageable, and that there are no known cases of the chemicals — which are injected deep underground a mile or more to fracture gas - bearing rock layers — reaching the surface to contaminate water or air.

Three main water quality issues were cited by Mr. Cuomo during his 20 - minute speech: an underground plume left by Northrup Grumman in Nassau county that measures one - by - three miles wide, runoff from mulching facilities on Long Island (of which there are 65) and saltwater intrusion.

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.

The MARSIS radar, which will soon be deployed on Mars Express, should be able to detect underground liquid water but may have trouble differentiating between ice and rocky soil.

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

Oil and gas companies developing fields in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and North Dakota rely on a process called hydraulic fracturing, which produces natural gas by blasting water and chemicals into energy - rich rock formations deep underground.

The treated water, which exceeds state and federal heath standards, is being used to recharge the underground aquifer that feeds the taps of more than 2.3 million residents of the region.

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

Other human activites linked to seismic activity include hydraulic fracturing, in which a water mixture gets pumped underground to break up rocks and release gas, and fluid withdrawal, which can refer to the withdrawal of oil and gas, groundwater or hot water / steam for geothermal power, the USGS says.

Stalagmites (which grow from the ground up) and stalactites (which hang from the ceiling) form when water at the surface seeps through the soil and drips into underground chambers over hundreds or thousands of years.

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.

The water then drained away through underground cracks, leaving a void into which the overlying rock collapsed, to form the canyon.

Libya, whose only other water source is the salty Mediterranean, was drawing water off by way of an underground network of pipes and aqueducts known as the Great Man - Made River, which Libyans describe as the eighth wonder of the world.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

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.

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.

Scattered throughout Mexico and central America are pools where water surfaces from underground networks of caves, which the ancient Maya said were gateways to the underworld.

Neumann's analysis reveals that most of the arsenic in well water today seeped underground from ponds dug about 50 years ago, though pits are still being dug today, which could exacerbate poisoning in future.

«When we know which paths the water travels underground, we can better estimate the quantities of materials released by black smokers over thousands of years,» says Hasenclever.

Robert Howarth of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, studies shale gas, which is extracted by injecting a mix of highly pressurised water, chemicals and sand underground to crack open the hydrocarbon - rich rock.

When the law extends to clouds, to water in underground rocks and to airspace, our attempts to free ourselves from natural constraints become the means by which we are enslaved to each other.

Although civil unrest is far less likely there, tension is indeed growing between political leaders in northern and southern California over who gets the increasingly scarce water from rivers, underground aquifers and snow melt, all of which are declining.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

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.

75 Trillion Number of gallons by which the earth's underground stores of water are depleted every year.

Oil companies have traditionally looked to so - called conventional petroleum resources — pockets of underground oil and gas wedged between water and impermeable rock — which gush to the surface when tapped by drilling.

NASA's Galileo probe, which orbited Jupiter between 1995 and 2003, observed a «hotspot» in the Pwyll crater — normally indicative of an underground heat source that could fuel a spout of water.

The spacecraft carries the first radar instrument ever flown to Mars which has returned pioneering sub-surface sounding measurements that show underground water - ice deposits.

Because in those days people didn't have tap water in their homes; they would go to a well and pump it, you know, pump the water up from underground; and what he was saying some of the wells were contaminated, and he then proved it after he identified from his maps which wells exactly were contaminated, he proved it by taking the pump handle off the well.

Titan has two potential harbors for life: the surface, which has methane lakes, and underground, where there's a water ocean.

What Rhoden's team observed in their study was that during this process, several models predict that Charon's orbit around Pluto could have been highly eccentric, which would have caused severe tides on both celestial bodies, possibly leading to the formation of underground oceans of liquid water, similar to those that probably exist inside Europa.

The latest findings of microbial life flourishing in the extreme environment of subglacial Lake Whillans in Antarctica, which were detailed in the first part of this article, are further hinting at the possibility of life existing in a similar fashion as well in the mysterious, underground alien waters of Europa.

A long line of evidence has shown that Europa has an underground ocean of liquid water, which for many scientists constitutes the best place in the Solar System to search for alien life.

A recent study by a team of US astronomers argues that Charon might harbor frozen underground oceans of liquid water, the pressence of which could be inferred by surface geologic features that could be visible to the New Horizons -LSB-...]

Efforts have begun to improve the management of water stored in the state's underground aquifers, which could help compensate for its loss of snowpack storage.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

The specifics: «Artesian water comes from a well that taps a confined aquifer - a water - bearing underground layer of rock or sand - in which the water level is at the top of the aquifer.»

The monster, which Tripp later dubs «Creech,» is forced from its home when an oil expedition drills through the underground water system.

Persia used a qanat system of irrigation which is essentially a gently sloping system of channels, situated underground, used to divert water from aquifers as needed.