aquifers

Honest question: shouldn't the cost of replenishing the aquifers be considered as part of the cost of water?

This mine will be directly over the Superior Watershed, one of the largest fresh water aquifers in the world.

Only one city went the route of creating aquifers to retain it; their name escapes me at the moment.

We've completely drained several seas and underground aquifers as a result of human activity in the last 50 years.

As for desalting the ocean, perhaps building aquifers to retain the run off from rains would be a better solution.

When California growers tap into aquifers to grow their almond-beef-whatever, they're not using a renewable resource.

You mention desert, so is it an incredibly saline salt lake or briny fossil aquifers?

It can be pumped into natural aquifers and existing artificial lakes all over the country.

Somebody really needs to add aquifers and watersheds to the California public school curriculum.

Now these same farmers are drilling ever-deeper wells that are draining the aquifers beneath them at pace greater than their recharge rate.

Everyone's more or less right about the conservation of matter argument here, but everyone commenting is missing the aquifers and they're the key.

That's just counting the ~30% of the rain that actually makes it to its streams and aquifers, discounting the portion lost to evaporation and transpiration.

A reality-denying, industry shill politician espouses: "Sinkholes arising from rapidly plummeting aquifers will boost the economy as tourist attractions.

I hate to be one of those "No Vacancy" people, but our aquifers simply can't support any more people here.

There are things called, "Aquifers" - the water table below ground.

Nevermind the fact that the "high-yielding, disease-resistant crops" only perform better when doused with biocides and chemicals (which leads to soil loss, contaminates aquifers and other waters, and ultimately leads to desertification).

Aquifers have an interesting property in that they're not necessarily trivially refillable - pore spaces compress and become less permeable.