Sentence examples for aquifer from inspiring English sources

We've got to get a hurricane to move up in our country and just saturate everything to replenish the aquifer," he said.

Activists say the project would hand even more water over to the multinational while further threatening the aquifer and long-term local water security.

The aquifer beneath Nejapa is one of the country's largest and most important, feeding local farms, communities and much of San Salvador.

Clare Langan, a member of the opposition group Kings Cliffe Waste Watchers, said they were particularly worried about contamination by dust in the air, and by waste leaking out of the landfill pit into an aquifer underneath and the soil around.

At stake lies the aquifer, an underground layer of water from which drinking water is extracted.

It is helping farmers use water more efficiently: in Rajasthan, in northern India, it is working with wheat farmers who have been depleting their aquifer to reduce water use by a quarter, to ensure it still has water to brew beer.

These satellites not only measure surface water by photographs but, thanks to precise measurements of the effect of bodies of water on the atmosphere, can even calculate the amount of water in the aquifer below them.The main reason for the depletion turns out to be that more water is being taken out of the underground aquifer, mainly by farmers.

They have been monitoring the site ever since, and so far they have found no leaks.What they have, however, found is that the carbon dioxide has increased the acidity of the water in the aquifer.

Dr Forster and his colleagues think the aquifer they have found covers an area of 70,000 square kilometres (about the size of Ireland).This, as they reported in December's Nature Geoscience, contains some 140 billion tonnes of liquid water.

Now, thanks to intensive pumping, the Ogallala aquifer is being depleted at a rate eight times faster than it is being replenished.

In 2008, however, it abandoned its self-sufficiency programme when it discovered that farmers were burning their way through water which comes from a non-replenishable aquifer below the Arabian sands at a catastrophic rate.