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aquifer

[ak-wuh-fer] / ˈæk wə fər /
NOUN
water table
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Law enforcement is stretched, the multitude of wells is draining the aquifer and some residents’ low wages result in reliance on social services, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Residents feared the project would strain the electrical grid and drain their local aquifer.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

Las Vegas injects Colorado River water directly into the aquifer using special wells, and has done so since the late 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

In neighbouring Norway, the world's first commercial CO2 transport and storage service, dubbed Northern Lights, carried out its first CO2 injection in August into an aquifer 110 kilometers off Bergen on the western coast.

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

“Where does all the water come from? The Court is on a hill, so where’s the aquifer or aqueduct to bring the water up?”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Groundwater levels are also very low across the chalk aquifers of East Yorkshire.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The deer eat fire-resilient chaparral and other native plants, making way for invasive annual grasses, which ignite more easily, increase erosion and leave less water to soak into aquifers, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Hydrologists should know by February or March whether aquifers and and human-made reservoirs have been replenished.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Muller said Deep Fission’s reactor is too deep to affect aquifers, and that it will follow all nuclear and oil-and-gas regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

These pervious sands, interbedded with the lava, become the aquifers of artesian wells.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton




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