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  • Thumbnail for Groundwater
    Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. About 30 percent of all...
    57 KB (7,475 words) - 06:01, 14 July 2024
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    transboundary aquifer. Groundwater from aquifers can be sustainably harvested by humans through the use of qanats leading to a well. This groundwater is a major source...
    33 KB (4,103 words) - 16:54, 13 July 2024
  • renewable resource. However, the world's supply of groundwater is steadily decreasing. Groundwater depletion (or overdrafting) is occurring for example...
    32 KB (6,011 words) - 20:21, 25 June 2024
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    materials that are saturated with groundwater in a given vicinity. The groundwater may be from precipitation or from groundwater flowing into the aquifer. In...
    9 KB (1,042 words) - 08:52, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Groundwater recharge
    Groundwater recharge or deep drainage or deep percolation is a hydrologic process, where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater. Recharge...
    18 KB (2,475 words) - 01:39, 16 July 2024
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    distribution and movement of groundwater in the soil and rocks of the Earth's crust (commonly in aquifers). The terms groundwater hydrology, geohydrology,...
    62 KB (8,067 words) - 00:46, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Groundwater pollution
    Groundwater pollution (also called groundwater contamination) occurs when pollutants are released to the ground and make their way into groundwater. This...
    83 KB (9,454 words) - 15:13, 26 May 2024
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    Well (redirect from Groundwater well)
    The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn up by a pump, or using...
    48 KB (6,094 words) - 16:12, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Overdrafting
    Overdrafting is the process of extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of an aquifer. Groundwater is one of the largest sources of fresh water...
    22 KB (2,494 words) - 22:13, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Groundwater on Mars
    had a planet-wide groundwater system and several prominent features on the planet have been produced by the action of groundwater. When water rose to...
    33 KB (3,783 words) - 17:45, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arsenic contamination of groundwater
    Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a form of groundwater pollution which is often due to naturally occurring high concentrations of arsenic in deeper...
    39 KB (5,096 words) - 04:37, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reclaimed water
    agricultural fields or replenishing surface water and groundwater. This latter is also known as groundwater recharge. Reused water also serve various needs...
    62 KB (8,469 words) - 19:15, 3 July 2024
  • Groundwater models are computer models of groundwater flow systems, and are used by hydrologists and hydrogeologists. Groundwater models are used to simulate...
    17 KB (2,023 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2024
  • Groundwater remediation is the process that is used to treat polluted groundwater by removing the pollutants or converting them into harmless products...
    17 KB (2,078 words) - 18:09, 22 September 2023
  • Baseflow (also called drought flow, groundwater recession flow, low flow, low-water flow, low-water discharge and sustained or fair-weather runoff) is...
    9 KB (1,157 words) - 09:45, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh
    and quantity problems (such as salinity, groundwater depletion and natural arsenic contamination of groundwater) along with regular natural disasters, such...
    91 KB (11,096 words) - 08:00, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dry well
    surface runoff and stormwater, in some cases greywater or water used in a groundwater heat pump. It is a gravity-fed, vertical underground system that can...
    7 KB (650 words) - 21:54, 10 June 2024
  • law along with the equation of conservation of mass simplifies to the groundwater flow equation, one of the basic relationships of hydrogeology. Morris...
    24 KB (3,518 words) - 10:15, 30 June 2024
  • resources with many rivers and lakes as well as groundwater supplies although specific details about groundwater is not well known. Average daily water use...
    18 KB (2,344 words) - 07:53, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Geological Survey
    The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines...
    35 KB (3,773 words) - 22:52, 12 July 2024
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