Water Table
In common usage, the term water table expresses the surface dividing the unsaturated and saturated groundwater zones. More accurately, the water table lies within the saturated zone and se...
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Water Table
The top or upper surface of the saturated zone of water that occurs underground, except where it is confined by an overlying impermeable layer. This surface separates the zone of aeration&...
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Water Table Draw-Down
A measurement of how a particular water level is affected by the withdrawal of groundwater. It is made by establishing the vertical distance at a given point between the original...
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Munich (dpa) - With cherry trees and fields of rapeseed in full
bloom and the ground dry and dusty, farmers in Germany are worrying
about their crop. Midsummer has turned up...
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Archaeologists in Mexico City announced plans Friday to hold tours of inaccessible buried ruins via glass-covered shafts looking down on the sites.Two daylong guided tours of the sites, known as "a...
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New York's attorney general told Exxon Mobil and two other oil companies Thursday that he intends to sue them for taking decades to clean up a giant underground pond of petroleum left by the refine...
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An environmental group and several city politicians said Wednesday they plan to file a new lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. over its handling of a huge underground oil spill in Brooklyn.Exxon has ...
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Sea levels off Shanghai and other Chinese coastal cities are rising at an alarming rate, leading to contamination of drinking water supplies and other threats, China's State Oceanic Administration ...
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BEIJING, Jan 17 (Reuters) - China must accelerate work on a
huge canal to bring Beijing back-up water for the Olympic
Games, a senior official said on Thursday, warning local
officials to clear aw...
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An archaeological dig in downtown Berlin has uncovered evidence that the German capital is at least 45 years older than had previously been established, authorities said Wednesday.During excavation...
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Harare (dpa) - Water shortages in the Zimbabwean capital Harare
have led to worsening outbreaks of diarrhoea with health centres
treating around 900 cases per day, it was re...
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Berlin (dpa) - This April is shaping up to be the dryest since
records began in Germany, and concern is rising among farmers and
foresters alike, even as many urban dwellers...
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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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Water Table
FEATURE: Summer in April - German farmers are hoping for rain
