aquifer
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Like other landowners in the area, it has been allowed to pump unlimited amounts from the aquifer, even as water levels have declined.
From Los Angeles Times
In neighbouring Norway, the world's first commercial CO2 transport and storage service, dubbed Northern Lights, carried out its first CO2 injection in August into an aquifer 110 kilometers off Bergen on the western coast.
From Barron's
This result stands out because subsurface microbial communities in continental bedrock aquifers are often considered relatively stable.
From Science Daily
The water depletion from over-pumping aquifers is causing land to sink in the provinces of Tehran and Isfahan.
In oxygen-poor settings such as marine sediments, wetlands, and underground aquifers, certain microbes produce hydrogen sulfide, a foul-smelling and highly toxic gas.
From Science Daily
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