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It's possible that life might persist in aquifers beneath the surface of Mars.
And if the water's still not clean enough to drink after it's been through this natural treatment process, the city can treat it again when they pump if back out of the groundwater aquifers before they deliver it to people to drink.
That leaves less than 1% available for sustaining all life on Earth, spread across our planet in rivers, lakes, underground aquifers, ground ice and permafrost.
They did it at a cost of their aquifers, they did it at a cost of their surface water.
Nestle, the largest water-bottling company in the world, pumps 400 gallons of water per minute out of aquifers in Lake Michigan, nearly free of charge.
The bulk of bottled water sold worldwide is drawn from the subterranean water reserves of aquifers and springs, many of which feed rivers and lakes.
Our initial work on nanomaterial mobility in formations resembling groundwater aquifers or sand filters has shown that while one type of nanomaterial may be very mobile, a second may stay put.
China rejects some of the same treaties that the US has declined to join, including the International Criminal Court Statute and the Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (the first law to establish rules on the shared resources of transnational rivers, lakes, and aquifers).
Worldwide, there are 276 cross-border freshwater basins and about as many cross-border aquifers.
Food prices are high today partly because food-growing regions around the world are experiencing the adverse effects of human-induced climate change (such as more droughts and extreme storms), and of water scarcity caused by excessive use of freshwater from rivers and aquifers.
Better land-management practices (the re-planting of degraded forests, for example) can recharge underground water aquifers.
Groundwater confined in deep geological formations and in offshore aquifers may also be tapped.
Subterranean aquifers, which amount to the world’s reserve water tank, are also running dry.
Subterranean aquifers are repositories of water located deep underground, in permeable rock, soil, or sand.
So subterranean aquifers are increasingly being exploited for agriculture, power generation, and daily use in fast-growing cities (urban Asia is growing at a rate of 120,000 people per day).
Today, about 30% of the world’s liquid freshwater comes from subterranean aquifers.
And one-third of the 37 largest aquifers studied by the University of California between 2003 and 2013 were severely depleted, receiving little or no replenishment from rainfall.
Some of the most stressed aquifers are in the driest regions, including Asia, up to 88% of which is water-stressed.
But Asia’s aquifers – many of which were formed millennia ago, when areas like northern China had a more humid climate – are no longer being replenished regularly by rainfall.
Moreover, depleted aquifers near coastlines are prone to contamination from saltwater, rendering land barren.
Some aquifers are contaminated by arsenic, which can occur naturally deep underground.
Efforts to replenish aquifers could also be pursued.
Subterranean aquifers should be the reservoir of last resort.
Rain gardens – small pockets of native vegetation planted in natural depressions and low points – can resolve this problem by collecting and filtering rainwater, so that it can be reabsorbed by the Earth, resulting in recharged aquifers and increased biodiversity.
With much of the water in its rivers, lakes, and aquifers unfit for human consumption, pristine water has become the new oil for China – a precious and vital resource, the overexploitation of which risks wrecking the natural environment.
Insecure land tenure acts as a disincentive for smallholder farmers to commit to productivity-enhancing investments; water extraction rates are depleting aquifers as a result of permissive policies; and food security remains out of reach for millions of people, despite rapid economic growth in urban areas.
The great aquifers that supply water for irrigation are being depleted.
Water scarcity is largely the result of inadequate sanitation and a lack of necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers.
And 21 of the world’s 37 largest aquifers have passed their sustainability tipping point.
It is an alarming list: “more frequent extreme events, more intense and changing rainfall patterns, more ocean acidification and ocean warming, coral bleaching, rising sea levels, coastal erosion, salinization of aquifers, the greatly accelerated emergence of new communicable diseases, reduced agricultural productivity, and a disruption of fishing traditions.”