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ground·wa·ter

also ground water (ground′wô′tər, -wŏt′ər)

Water beneath the earth's surface, often between saturated soil and rock, that supplies wells and springs.

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ground water

1. (Physical Geography) underground water that has come mainly from the seepage of surface water and is held in pervious rocks

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ground water

Subsurface water filling pores in rock. It flows under gravity.

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Noun

ground water - underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks

spring water, well water

H2O, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

Translations

Grundwasser

грунтовая вода

ground water

n → acqua freatica

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In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

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Charmaine Kara, MCWD community relations and external affairs manager, said Tuesday water service hours have been reduced to six to eight hours daily as 70 percent of its ground water wells have been fatally compromised while water production at the Buhisan Dam has totally stopped.

Cebu water district facing supply shortage

Hearing a suo motu case regarding ground water exploitation by mineral water companies at the apex court, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar said mineral water companies were using ground water, but the government didn't move to fix them.

Water won't be available even on gold rates in future: CJP

Looking at their robustness more and more eucalyptus trees were planted in areas where there was no need of ground water like the motorway.

Eucalyptus trees

The sources said that the under ground water level is depleting due to less rains and excessive extraction of under ground water by the fast expanding federal capital through tube wells and hand pumps.

Underground water level in Islamabad goes down

Ground water is major source of drinking water in whole world.

ASSESMENT OF GROUND WATER QUALITY: A CASE STUDY IN SARGODHA CITY, PAKISTAN

The chairman P and D, addressing the meeting, said that the province was facing problems of rapid depletion of ground water levels and intrusion of saline water into sweet water in some areas.

Rs 582m for aquifer ground water recharge project

Speaking to Khaleej Times, Dr Rashid Alleem Chairman of Sewa said the first project includes the operation of storing ground water in the area.

SEWA to invest in water conservation initiatives

Values of Calcium concentration in waste water collected from drains of Faisalabad and in ground water were 44-136 (ppm) and 30.5-211.5ppm (table1).

IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF SEWERAGE DRAINS ON GROUNDWATER QUALITY OF FAISALABAD PAKISTAN. A PHYSIO-CHEMICAL ANALYSIS

The majority of public water systems in the United States use ground water as their primary source, providing drinking water to almost 90 million persons in nearly 34 million households (2,3).

Ground Water Awareness Week--March 8-14, 2015

The first phase, conducted by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, involved the removal of approximately 40 buried drums and soil contaminated by metals, and the construction of a ground water treatment system to prevent the contaminated ground water from moving off site.