Aquifer
An aquifer is a body of sand or porous rock capable of storing and producing significant quantities of water. An aquifer may be a layer of loose gravel or sand, a layer of porous sandstone, a ...
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Aquifer
Natural zones below the surface that yield water in sufficient quantities to be economically important for industrial, agricultural, or domestic purposes. Aquifers can occur in a variety of ge...
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Aquifer Depletion
An aquifer is water-saturated geological layer that easily releases water to wells or springs for use as a water supply. Also called ground water reservoirs or water-bearing format...
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Aquifer Restoration
Once an aquifer is contaminated, the process of restoring the quality of water is generally time-consuming and expensive, and it is often more cost effective to locate a new sour...
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Recharge Zone
The area in which water enters an aquifer. In a recharge zone surface water or precipitation percolate through relatively porous, unconsolidated, or fractured materials, such as sand, ...
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Zone of Saturation
In discussions of groundwater, a zone of saturation is an area where water exists and will flow freely to a well, as it does in an aquifer. The thickness of the zone varies from a f...
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In the five years since billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens started trying to sell water from beneath the vast empty spaces of West Texas, he hasn't had any customers.Not one city or agency has sig...
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Japan's parliament enacted an amendment to an environment bill
on Wednesday to allow projects aimed to confine factory-emitted
carbon dioxide in undersea aquifers as part of measures to deal ...
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With water shortages a possibility looming in the state's future, this city's starting to look at what it would take to turn sewage back into water that's pure enough to drink."This is a homegrown ...
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After clambering down a canyon wall, ducking poison ivy vines and wading chest-deep across a lukewarm stream, Cary Myler spied some flecks that look like pepper sprinkled on a wet rock and announce...
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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Sept. 21Journal Star, Peoria, Ill., on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation:In a speech dripping with unin...
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Rome (dpa) - Nearly 2 billion people could be left without water
and two thirds of the world's population may end up living under
water stress conditions by 2025, the Food a...
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Some scientists want to combat global warming by capturing the carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and storing it deep underground. Here is a look at the still experimental technology:_ WHAT IS...
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The floods that forced hundreds of thousands from their homes and left a Mexican Gulf coast state 80 percent underwater will be the nation's most costly natural disaster since a hurricane devastate...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
ETHANOL BACKLASH (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Like water seeping out of the giant High Plains Ogallala
aquifer, support for corn e...
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This desert oasis east of Los Angeles sold itself for decades on water and all the luxury it brings: strings of emerald golf courses, lush resorts and manicured neighborhoods with sparkling pools.N...
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Aquifer
Aquifer
Texas water marketers see future demand
