Sentence examples for because of groundwater from inspiring English sources

In 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered the state to supply clean drinking water to the residents of Bhopal because of groundwater contamination.

Jakarta is thought to be subsiding by 25cm a year largely because of groundwater extraction, and Houston is sinking as the oil wells beneath it are depleted.

Extending it would bring public water farther into an area where the county's Department of Health has prohibited new private wells since 1997 because of groundwater contamination from the now-capped Southold town landfill.

Home to 10m, the place is polluted, floods severely every rainy season, is sinking because of groundwater extraction, and is the only huge South-East Asian city without mass transit.

For the long-term simulation, Ta/Tp ranged between 0.91 and 1.00 except in 2007 (0.78), when the water table declined because of groundwater abstraction.

Because of groundwater conceptualization uncertainty, multi-model methods are usually used and the corresponding uncertainties are estimated by integrating Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Bayesian model averaging (BMA) methods.

This is relevant to practical farming because contamination of groundwater and soil is a common occurrence in West Bengal, India, where rice, the chief staple crop, is subject to summer temperatures of 43 45 °C and to As in the soil.

Once initiated, this process becomes self-enhancing because the lines of groundwater flow converge on the spring head.

Because the temperature of groundwater is constant year round while the temperature of the ocean changes with the seasons, one way to locate groundwater flow into the ocean is by identifying temperature anomalies on the ocean's surface using aerial thermal imaging.

Because the quantity of groundwater pumped for industrial uses in the coastal area increased rapidly, the groundwater level decreased.

Note that the horizontal groundwater flow in the unconfined aquifer is not modeled numerically in this study, because the effects of groundwater flow and its temporal change will be incorporated as this boundary condition into our hydrological modeling.