artesian

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I have an artesian well, solar, wind, and hunt/fush/grow most of my food.

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(of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure; "an artesian well"; "artesian pressure"

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adjective

(of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure; "an artesian well"; "artesian pressure"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for artesian.

adjective

(of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure; "an artesian well"; "artesian pressure"

Example sentences

I have an artesian well, solar, wind, and hunt/fush/grow most of my food.

My well goes down 65 feet, where it hit a spring, and we have an artesian well off that spring.

Had a fort with running water from an artesian well.

Used to be the water table was so high in a lot of places you could drill artesian wells.

You wouldn’t need desalination for this, for example, the great artesian basin is barely tapped.

There was a powerful ancient African civilization that died out because they used up all the artesian water.

Avoiding running the pump on my artesian well a couple seconds more and putting a couple gallons more a day into my over-provisioned leach field is not worth having to run the dishwasher multiple times or handwash them first.

> “When all the rivers are used, when all the creeks in the ravines, when all the brooks, when all the springs are used, when all the reservoirs along the streams are used, when all the canyon waters are taken up, when all the artesian waters are taken up, when all the wells are sunk or dug that can be dug in this arid region,” he warned, “there is still not sufficient water to irrigate all the land.”This rings very true today, save for the ability to desalinate.