Sentences with phrase «where underground water»

In communities where underground water sources have dried up entirely, all agriculture is rain - fed and drinking water is trucked in.

Water Source Heat Pumps use an open loop collector where underground water such as from a well or pond is pumped through the heat pump.

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The country's water loss is now below 10 % due to the use of algorithms that predict where leaks will occur, underground pipe repair tools, and a sonar - like system that pinpoints the locations of tiny leaks that have the potential to grow larger.

People believed that spring water — surfacing from underground, where it was purified by sand and rocks, to meet the light of day — was the cleanest source.

As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.

Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.

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.

In the western United States, where corn must be irrigated because precipitation is less reliable, Schnoor said the strain on the underground water supply is even greater.

This massive development has led to more than 3,900 brine spills, mostly coming from faulty pipes built to transport fracked wells» flowback water from on - site holding containers to nearby injection wells where it will be disposed underground.»

On a more typical day, however, the remote - controlled loaders dump ore loads into an underground mill, where the chunks of rock are ground down into fine silt that is mixed with water and pumped to the surface as a slurry.

Study author, Dr Wendy Timms, also from CWI, says: «This is particularly important in the southern Sydney basin where six underground coal mines operate within the Sydney water supply catchment, and underneath wetlands and sensitive ecosystems.

If the ISA binds to radionuclides, such as uranium, then the radionuclides will become far more soluble and more likely to flow out of the underground vaults to surface environments, where they could enter drinking water or the food chain.

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.

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.

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

The conventional picture is that, in the last step, the carbon dioxide flows underground where it encounters water and forms carbonic acid, leading to mineral formations that trap the carbon.

Whether it comes from an underground spring or from an artesian well, spring water is the product of rain and snow filtered through layers of rock, where it picks up all sorts of valuable minerals that are good for you.

Mario can later return with a Secret Door and place it in the underground area where the water was to get the bed.

Highlights include an underground river adventure tour (included in the general entrance fee) where swimmers of all ages don bright pink lifejackets and swim (or more accurately, bob along) through an underground river, various caves and ancient cenotes (water - filled sinkholes).

Iran • Yazd, a historical city located 168 miles southeast of Isfahan, where water is supplied to the city through a qanat system developed to draw underground water.

This road surrounded by water, ends in an impressive tongue of fire and is right where the cave has access, through a glass bridge under which runs one of our underground rivers... and this is just the beginning!

Explore the waters of El Nido, where tropical fish swarm around the coral reefs, go diving in the azure ocean off of Linapacan Island, or bravely swim through the world's longest underground navigable river.

You'll walk through a tunnel and then over a concrete walkway suspended over the underground river, where the sounds of the water and bats seem to be right out of a Batman movie scene.

In the Manuel Antonio area, some of the more popular tours include these: Damas Island Estuary Mangrove Tour — Mangroves are important ecosystems where sea water and fresh water meet creating an underground rooting system among the trees.

The (Inland) Blue Hole is where the underground stream comes to the surface, providing visitors with a source of cool and refreshing water for swimming.

Blue Creek Cave (Hokeb Ha in Quiche Maya, meaning «where the waters come out)-RRB- is located in the Belize's Toledo District, and is believed to be part of one of the largest underground cave systems in the world.

The Yucatan Peninsula is a huge limestone platform where fresh water runs like rivers through underground cave systems.

In Tilwari, for example, water from a natural source was piped to a place in the village more accessible than hiking up a steep slope carrying a bucket of water — but the project also supported a rainwater harvesting initiative, where a family that is too far to benefit from the piped water has installed gutters on the roof of the house that direct water into a cistern that they keep underground behind the house.

Surface mining techniques are even more damaging, both in regions such as Central Appalachia, where mountaintop removal methods are deployed, and in deserts and prairies, where arid conditions make reclamation and restoration of underground water supplies difficult.

So to address the first concern, four families worked with the World Wildlife Fund to create polar - bear resistant food storage containers that can be stored above ground, rather than underground where traditional ice cellars - some more than 100 years old and upwards of 12 feet deep - are beginning to melt and fill with water.

Aquifers are underground locations of water - bearing permeable rock where water can be extracted by a well.

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.

Geo - exchange simply takes water and pumps it underground through a long pipe and uses the fact that it comes out the other side at 50 F or 10 C no matter where we are in the world (more of less).