How to Use aquifer in a Sentence

aquifer

noun

• The aquifer stood at 625 feet as of Tuesday, per the EAA.
  — Megan Stringer, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
• The only way to know for sure is to sample the aquifer.
  — Hannah Richter, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
• The good news is there are actions that can lessen the strain on aquifers.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 1 Feb. 2024
• The draining of the aquifer is causing portions of the valley floor to sink.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Mad River Well field, which the city uses to tap the aquifer.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2020
• Water comes from an aquifer the army drilled 4,200 feet down.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• The sales tax for the aquifer, parks and creekways would expire and not be on the ballot.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• But the utility draws water from the same aquifer as the Navy.
  — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
• Two wells were drilled in 2013 to tap into a part of the aquifer with pure water.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• The answers show why the country’s aquifers are in trouble.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• More than 90 percent of the water in Gaza’s sole aquifer is no longer potable.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• But the new survey is the first to establish the aquifer's size and map it in detail.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 28 June 2019
• The new research shows that crucial aquifers around the world are drying up.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• Plans call for adding more water to the city’s main aquifer than would be withdrawn.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
• Both tribes use the same aquifer, with wells reaching thousands of feet into the ground.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 7 July 2023
• Thanks to an aquifer beneath the city, Desert Hot Springs has some of the purest hot and cold mineral springs in the world.
  — Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• The breadth and depth of the aquifer generally decrease from north to south.
  — Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 23 Nov. 2021
• For decades, scientists have known about an aquifer off the US East Coast.
  — Hannah Richter, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
• Wyckoff said the cedars were key in keeping the aquifer free of saltwater.
  — Ginger Zee, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• And that has raised the aquifer to a point that water is seeping out into the river again.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• That’s because the train will, in part, be built right on top of the aquifer’s most fragile points of contact with the surface.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• To begin recharging the aquifer, Anne Arundel needs a new state law.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
• Well: This means the home has access to groundwater from the local aquifer.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
• Farmers told me the local wells and aquifers were drying up.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
• Manmade wells then later draw on aquifers to pull water back out of the ground for use.
  — Dan Lambe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• The hospital tried tapping an aquifer, but the water was too salty to use.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 14 June 2023
• Thanks to the new study, one such niche has now been found in the form an underground aquifer filled with briny water.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
• Much of the water for this process would be pumped from another aquifer, to the west of the Santa Ritas.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• That rivals the size of even the largest terrestrial aquifers.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 June 2019
• The city bought the property to protect water rights in the aquifer under Ford Ranch.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 July 2019

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025