How to Use aquifer in a Sentence

aquifer

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  • The draining of the aquifer is causing portions of the valley floor to sink.
    — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The answers show why the country’s aquifers are in trouble.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • More than 90 percent of the water in Gaza’s sole aquifer is no longer potable.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The new research shows that crucial aquifers around the world are drying up.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Both tribes use the same aquifer, with wells reaching thousands of feet into the ground.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 7 July 2023
  • Wyckoff said the cedars were key in keeping the aquifer free of saltwater.
    — Ginger Zee, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That’s because the train will, in part, be built right on top of the aquifer’s most fragile points of contact with the surface.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Well: This means the home has access to groundwater from the local aquifer.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The hospital tried tapping an aquifer, but the water was too salty to use.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 14 June 2023
  • It’s always been healthy, and if rain stopped today, there’s a 10-year supply of water stored in the aquifer.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Wells and pumps pull groundwater from as deep as 680 feet, and the aquifer’s levels are dropping.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • And in 13 percent, the aquifer has actually grown over time.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • By 1994, an underground plume had spread to a nearby aquifer.
    — Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That figure is the average amount of water recharged into the aquifer each year.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 June 2022
  • The water was rushing out of the aquifer more quickly than it was being replenished by the creek.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the water is also filling an aquifer for storage.
    — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Some of it replenishes the aquifer that SRP and others will later pump and use.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
  • In the years since, the farmland over the Ogallala once again flourished as farmers drew from the aquifer to irrigate their fields.
    — Coral Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Once mining begins, Twin Pines says the mine will withdraw little water from the aquifer and will not harm the swamp.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 19 Jan. 2023
  • It’s made from non-GMO Wyoming grains and water from a local limestone aquifer, and bottled at a hefty 116 proof.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The aquifer is the primary water source for 2 million people.
    — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2022
  • Over the decades, the soil had formed a pressurized cushion around the underground aquifer that held up other buildings on the Mall.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But Colorado has policies that allow its aquifers to run out.
    — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The main goal in other AMAs is to reach a safe yield by 2025, where the amount of water removed from the aquifer roughly matches the amount replenished.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • To allow the aquifer to refill, wells are being shut down and more will have to be taken out of production.
    — Jim Robbins, Wired, 25 June 2022
  • Banking water stored in the aquifer for shortage and long-term resilience planning.
    — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022
  • The aquifer is managed by the Edwards Aquifer Authority.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • As floodwaters soak into the soil and replenish the aquifer, this gives a boost to the local water supply.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • According to the United Nations, more than 95 percent of water from the coastal aquifer is not drinkable.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The rivers in the Hill Country are also primarily fed by springs, and need inflow from aquifers to keep running.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023

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