How to Use aquifer in a Sentence

aquifer

noun
  • The aquifer stood at 625 feet as of Tuesday, per the EAA.
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The only way to know for sure is to sample the aquifer.
    Hannah Richter, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
  • The good news is there are actions that can lessen the strain on aquifers.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The draining of the aquifer is causing portions of the valley floor to sink.
    Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Mad River Well field, which the city uses to tap the aquifer.
    Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Water comes from an aquifer the army drilled 4,200 feet down.
    Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The sales tax for the aquifer, parks and creekways would expire and not be on the ballot.
    Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 29 Jan. 2020
  • But the utility draws water from the same aquifer as the Navy.
    Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Two wells were drilled in 2013 to tap into a part of the aquifer with pure water.
    Ian James, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Plans call for adding more water to the city’s main aquifer than would be withdrawn.
    oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Both tribes use the same aquifer, with wells reaching thousands of feet into the ground.
    Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 7 July 2023
  • Thanks to an aquifer beneath the city, Desert Hot Springs has some of the purest hot and cold mineral springs in the world.
    Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The breadth and depth of the aquifer generally decrease from north to south.
    Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 23 Nov. 2021
  • For decades, scientists have known about an aquifer off the US East Coast.
    Hannah Richter, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
  • Wyckoff said the cedars were key in keeping the aquifer free of saltwater.
    Ginger Zee, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • And that has raised the aquifer to a point that water is seeping out into the river again.
    Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • To begin recharging the aquifer, Anne Arundel needs a new state law.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The report cited cleanup efforts at the site as helping to improve the aquifer.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • 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
  • When aquifer levels drop, the ground may sink to fill the spaces left underground.
    Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2021
  • After it's used, it's discharged back into the aquifer near the Boise River.
    Kirk Siegler, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • 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
  • The aquifers feed the headwaters of the Verde River and the potential loss of water in the river from new wells led to a new conservation agreement with a rancher in the are, the Nature Conservancy and others.
    Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Everyone read a fictitious story about a school that was running out of water because its local aquifer was drying up.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024

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