aquifer

Sourced from a deep pressured aquifer in New Zealand, it’s “smooth and easy to swallow,” Alexander said.

If Los Angeles reduced its pumping, the valley’s aquifer levels would rise and meadows could recover, Boulton said.

The company has promised to construct a giant wastewater recycling facility, to be used in its cooling system, that would help reduce demand on the Memphis aquifer.

Although this week's rainfall is welcome and will go some way to help river levels and soil moisture content, it will take some time for catchments to recover and for reservoirs and aquifers to respond.

Where aquifer levels decline, wells and faucets increasingly sputter and run dry, people drill deeper and the land can sink as underground spaces collapse.