How to Use groundwater in a Sentence

groundwater

noun

• There were concerns about contaminated groundwater.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The drought has made groundwater — held in underground aquifers that can take many years to be replenished — even more vital.
  — Jacques Billeaud, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Why does Goodyear want to upgrade its groundwater treatment?
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Uhlman focused on the simple idea that, in the Sonoran Desert, groundwater is not a renewable resource.
  — Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
• The water mingles with the groundwater for months before being pumped up and used for drinking water again.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• There could be many more—small, large, refreshed by groundwater or isolated by ice ages.
  — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• Cochise County farmers must deal with red tape to secure groundwater rights.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
• Testing in recent years has confirmed that the coal ash ponds are polluting the groundwater, which flows toward the White River.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2023
• The water system in Lahaina relies on both surface water from a creek and groundwater pumped from wells.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Under the law, farmers’ rights to groundwater are grandfathered in, which gives them the perpetual right to grow.
  — Isabel Webb Carey, Bloomberg.com, 14 July 2023
• Shallow groundwater is present below fields in many places across the continent.
  — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
• The idea of using farmland to recharge groundwater has percolated for years.
  — Amy Taxin, ajc, 28 Mar. 2023
• But Tulare Lake farm barons defy calls to cut groundwater pumping.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Desert towns in the American West have rebelled against proposals out of concern groundwater will be drained away.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Kevin Rein is the Colorado official in charge of allocating the state’s groundwater.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Engineering and drawings to reroute coal pile stormwater are ready for city approval, and soil and groundwater testing was completed in June on the north side of the main plant.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 17 July 2023
• The second is on the San Xavier reservation, where years of restoration with Colorado River water have even brought groundwater levels up to the surface.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• The federal Clean Water Act isn’t supposed to apply to groundwater.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• The foam contaminated the ground and the PFAS were carried across the area by the groundwater and sanitary sewers it was washed into after testing.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• The state lies on bedrock made of limestone or other carbonate rock that can be eaten away by acidic groundwater, forming voids that collapse when the rock can no longer support the weight of what’s above it.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024