How to Use groundwater in a Sentence

groundwater

noun

• There were concerns about contaminated groundwater.
• The region has no other sources besides a bit of groundwater, and takes 90% of its water from the river at Lake Mead.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• Rare earth mining has been plagued with environmental problems because of the use of toxic chemicals which can pollute the soil and groundwater.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
• Back in Egypt, at a small filtration plant in Dahshur, residents line up to fill large plastic containers with filtered groundwater.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2022
• When California lacks surface water, water usage shifts to groundwater stores.
  — Caroline Marshall Reinhart, WIRED, 21 Sep. 2024
• Eventually, Neil bought a plot of land outside Portland which had good sun exposure, pristine groundwater, and a run-down cabin.
  — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• As nearby groundwater replaces the mineral-rich brine, evaporation yields less salt than historic cycles of flooding and evaporation left on the landscape.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
• Bob Wallace, a remedial project manager for the EPA, said at the time that groundwater runs in all directions from the site.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
• In Iraq’s ancient Babylon, climate change has led to salty groundwater that is corroding some of humanity’s oldest monuments.
  — Nazih Osseiran, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2022
• One group was studying the movement of the groundwater through a patch of now-salty soil.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• Wells and pumps pull groundwater from as deep as 680 feet, and the aquifer’s levels are dropping.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• In Maryland, groundwater abusers can be fined $5,000 a day.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Looking Back 50 Years The one long-term impact of the tests is the groundwater of Amchitka.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• One of the things that came out of the meetings were concerns regarding groundwater.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 2 May 2023
• As groundwater levels drop, saltwater seeps in and fills in the gaps in the soil where freshwater used to be.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• Most of us know about Fondomonte’s sweet deal to pump groundwater on 3,500 acres of state land thanks to this reporting.
  — Greg Burton, AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• The pump moves water from the Kings onto Cameron’s grape fields, flooding them in order to recharge the groundwater aquifers beneath them.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• And because the groundwater there is spotty, not all residents have the option of just drilling a well.
  — Sasha Hupka, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
• The agency relaunched the process to regulate groundwater this fall, which will take about three years.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2022
• It has been found in the air near PVC factories and hazardous waste sites, and can leach into groundwater.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The city now relies on rain to fill a reservoir, and groundwater levels are dwindling.
  — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 29 June 2024
• Some of it seeped into the groundwater and was pumped through the well in the form of nitrate, which is made when nitrogen and oxygen combine.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2024
• Freed from infrastructure and given the space and time to breathe, the groundwater and streams have begun to reflow.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
• Groundwater comes from one of the city's 22 wells, which can pump up 32 million gallons of groundwater per day.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• Raw sewage — including all its bacteria and pathogens — then seeps from the pit into the ground, groundwater, aquifers and ocean.
  — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 6 Apr. 2023
• The groundwater would likely cover the entirety of Mars to a depth of a mile (1.6 kilometers), their study found.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
• But the Colorado River, and Arizona’s groundwater, cannot keep up.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• State officials hope projects like these will replenish some of the groundwater that was pumped out during the drought.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Pump more fresh water from a lake or river or aquifer than can be replaced by rain, snow melt, or groundwater?
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
• Despite some damage to cars, homes and roads, the UAE's state news agency says the rainfall boosts the country's groundwater reserves.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 18 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024