Sentence examples for aquifer it from inspiring English sources

When you destroy the aquifer, it is a shared aquifer,' " said Yousef Abu Safieh, the Palestinian Authority's environmental minister.

What is more, the hydrology of the aquifer, it argues, would slow the spread of any leak to a snail's pace.

"Every time you build a road, you have storm drains, and instead of that water going back into the ground and into the aquifer, it runs right off the road and into the stream," she said.

He goes into detail on the sorts of safety measures to be included, including three layers of pipe casing between the 914 metre (3,000ft) drill shaft and the aquifer it passes through (which is saline, so not used for drinking water in any case), and a gas-sensing and shut-off system to prevent leaks.

But it is also true that if water is polluted by industry or drained from a particular aquifer it's going to disappear for good.

"If they're going to pump all that water out of the aquifer, it's going to have a real impact on farming," he said.

For years, the town has drawn water from the lake bearing its name, but without any underground aquifers, it has no other source.

Because it hardly ever rains here (the property is irrigated by underground aquifers), it's not mud, the curse of Eastern festivals, but heat that Tollett has to worry about.

This means moving drinking water and irrigation wells away from coasts, where saltwater is intruding into aquifers; it includes developing drought-resistant crops and helping small farmers in fragile, semi-arid regions survive.

Mali, Niger and Nigeria are due to sign a provisional deal early next year to set up a body to run the Iullemeden aquifer, where withdrawals have exceeded recharge ever since 1995, endangering the Niger river in the dry season.The two deals follow a UN resolution in 2008 on creating a legal regime for aquifers (it may become a full convention next year).

The value of storativity for water table aquifers varies from 0.01 to 0.35, while for confined aquifers, it varies from 0.00001 to 0.001 (Ramakrishnan 1998).