The Guarani Aquifer, located beneath the surface of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, is the second largest known aquifer system in the world...
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The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the...
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sand, or silt). Aquifers vary greatly in their characteristics. The study of water flow in aquifers and the characterization of aquifers is called hydrogeology...
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Guarani, Minas Gerais, Brazil Guarani de Goiás, Brazil Guarani das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Guarani Aquifer, a large underground water reservoir...
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MintPress News (section Guarani Aquifer)
News falsely claimed that Coca-Cola and Nestlé were privatising the Guarani Aquifer, a major South American water reserve. The site additionally made the...
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Leederville Aquifer Yarragadee Aquifer Canterbury Plains Aquifer (Christchurch) Waiwhetu Aquifer (Wellington) Amazon Basin Maranhao Basin Guarani Aquifer System...
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This is a list of some aquifers in the United States. An aquifer is a geologic formation, a group of formations, or a part of a formation that contains...
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The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) is the world's largest known fossil water aquifer system. It is located underground in the Eastern end of the...
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Bas Saharan Basin (category Aquifers)
The Bas Saharan Basin (Arabic: حوض الصحراء) is an artesian aquifer system which covers most of the Algerian and Tunisian Sahara and extends to Libya,...
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Great Artesian Basin (category Aquifers in Australia)
Australia portal Environment portal Water portal Geology of Australia Guarani Aquifer "Great Artesian Basin". Water. Geoscience Australia. 15 May 2014. Retrieved...
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The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most prolific artesian aquifers in the world. Located on the eastern edge of the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of...
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Zumpango, Chalco, and Xochimilco). Much of the lake was fed from groundwater aquifers; fresh water poured in from Lake Chalco and Xochimilco's freshwater springs...
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Paraguay (category CS1 Guarani-language sources (gn))
score of 6.39/10, ranking it 74th globally out of 172 countries. The Guarani Aquifer is an important exorheic basin to the region. Although Paraguay is...
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The Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer is an aquifer system in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It covers approximately 3,000 square miles (7,800 km2) and receives...
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groundwater reserves in the world, the Guarani Aquifer, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay. The Guarani aquifer covers 1,200,000 square kilometers and has...
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Upper Rhine Plain (redirect from Upper Rhine aquifer)
Rhine Plain close to the faults. Located below the plain, the Upper Rhine aquifer – one of the largest in Europe – holds an estimated 45,000 km3 (11,000 cu mi)...
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American States (OAS) (2005). "GUARANI AQUIFER SYSTEM: Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of the Guarani Aquifer System" (PDF). ORGANIZATION...
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Sankoty Aquifer Santa Clara valley aquifer Snake River Aquifer Southern Hills Aquifer Turlock Basin Wekepeke Mexico Lake Texcoco South America Guarani Aquifer...
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The Snake River Aquifer is a large reservoir of groundwater underlying the Snake River Plain in the southern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. Most of...
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The Yarragadee Aquifer is a significant freshwater aquifer located in the south west of Western Australia and predominantly beneath the Swan Coastal Plain...
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The Mahomet Aquifer is the most important aquifer in east-central Illinois. Composed of sand and gravel, it is part of the buried Mahomet Bedrock Valley...
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Paraná. The basin serves as the recharge zone for the Guarani Aquifer, one of the world's largest aquifer systems. The rivers of the La Plata Basin carry an...
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The Biscayne Aquifer, named after Biscayne Bay, is a surficial aquifer. It is a shallow layer of highly permeable limestone under a portion of South Florida...
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The Leederville Aquifer is a significant freshwater aquifer located in the south west of Western Australia and predominantly beneath the Swan Coastal...
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Laurentian River System (category Aquifers in Canada)
Water still flows down this old valley—underground. The source of the aquifer is the Georgian Bay, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) away. In 2003...
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beds, the Botucatu Formation, housing the important Guaraní Aquifer, one of the world's largest aquifer systems. Above the Botucatu Formation, a large igneous...
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The Waiwhetu artesian aquifer, sometimes referred to as the Hutt aquifer, is a pressurized zone of water-retaining sand, gravel and boulders beneath the...
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located. All three countries can be seen from each of the obelisks. The Guarani Aquifer is arguably the biggest reservoir of fresh, potable water in the world—right...
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Hamza River (category Aquifers of South America)
Rio Hamza) is an unofficial name for what seems to be a slowly flowing aquifer in Brazil and Peru, approximately 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) long at a...
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Oak Ridges Moraine (category Aquifers in Canada)
and shrubbery (see ecology). These are also the supply of fresh water to aquifers in the moraine through complex subterranean connections (see hydrology)...
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