This water table is versatileOne of my favorite things about this water table is that you can use it for so much more than just water play.
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What are the neighbors like, what was the vision of the park, where the boundaries are, where the water table is, because the water table has changed over time.
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What are the neighbors like, what was the vision of the park, where the boundaries are, where the water table is because the water table has changed over time.
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So having an 18-story building built on top of the tallest mountain from the sea level on our water table, that's seven stories just to go in and crack into our water table.
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If you're looking for one with a few more bells and whistles though, Step2 also has a two-tier Tropical Rain Forest Water Table ($69.99) and a dinosaur-themed Dino Dig Sand & Water Table ($68.99).
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It finally got below the water table in the wee hours.
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The higher water table is eating away at all that dirt.
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Prairie dogs would dig tunnels that channeled rainwater into the water table.
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All of which means less pollution making its way to the water table.
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Basements and underground garages are extremely rare because the water table is so high.
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Israel says unregulated digging of wells would do severe damage to the water table.
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The water table is dropping precipitously in the Western US and in northern India.
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"With the sea level going up, the water table has risen up," said Jason.
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Those who can afford to, have dug unregulated wells to tap a falling water table.
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Scientists say explosive eruptions occur when magma -- or molten rock -- drops below the water table.
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The exhibit making the biggest splash takes center stage: a 16-foot-long water table.
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The peat has helped preserve the artifacts, but it's deteriorating as the water table changes.
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But given the high water table, sewers make more sense than individual systems, he said.
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Heavy rains can overwhelm the shallow water table, pushing water up from the earth itself.
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Mr Nanda says the restoration work has helped raise the area's water table by several metres.
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The water table has dropped by 100 metres in some places, according to Greenpeace, an NGO.
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The shortage had been exacerbated by private vendors digging deep into the water table, he said.
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Once the lake fell below the height of the local water table, steam-driven explosions began.
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In the Barnett, holes go down six to eight thousand feet, substantially below the water table.
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A shrinking permafrost layer will also lower the water table, further challenging the environment, Shen said.
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That means that if you're taking a shower with shampoo, even if it falls to the ground and goes all the way under the ground into the water table (which everything eventually does) it's not going to damage the ecosystem or toxify the water table in someway.
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Environmentalists are also concerned that thousands of newly dug wells could dangerously disrupt the region's water table.
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If most of it runs off instead, the water table is not replenished and sources run dry.
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Water table levels and the quality of available water were also negatively affected by mining, residents said.
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Activists are also concerned that the falling water table in Agra may be weakening the wooden foundations.
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With nearly all the sand removed from the river, the water table had dropped for miles around.
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Run-off containing animal wastes can also seep into the water table and contaminate rivers and lakes.
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Combined with the region's high water table, that kind of soil makes tunneling there a soupy, expensive mess.
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If it is indeed coming from a rising water table, the implications for future eruptions could be big.
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But as the state's water table fell and farming grew more mechanised, jobs in the cities failed to materialise.
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It has dropped so far that the lava is below the water table, so groundwater is turning to steam.
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This cosmopolitan author is not overtly funny; his humor seeps organically to the surface, like a rising water table.
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As the sea level rises, it pushes inland under the ground, raising the water table closer to the surface.
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Scientists had expected such explosions by the middle of this month as Kilauea's lava lake fell below the water table.
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Protesters worried that the drilling might cause the water table to drop, which would expose artifacts buried nearby to oxygen.
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When the water table rose, that salt came to the surface and began increasing the salinity of the area's ground.
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The water table is falling on average by 0.3 meters and by as much as 4 meters in some places.
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Many areas are relying on groundwater for drinking and limited irrigation, but the underground water table is receding alarmingly, farmers say.
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Twentieth-century development has lowered the water table in the marshes near Azraq, giving scientists better access to deeper sediment layers.
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Now, as the water table falls from overuse, he is only able to pump enough water to cultivate half his land.
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When the water table rose, that salt came to the surface and began increasing the salinity of the Wheat Belt's ground.
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Locals are concerned that the water table will be contaminated by gas leaking from a disposal well or by an earthquake.
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Locals are concerned that gas will contaminate the water table, by a leak from a disposal well or by an earthquake.
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Many parts of the system are below the water table, and its lines course through neighborhoods that were once lush farmland.
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Perfect for small spaces, the Step2 Cascading Cove Sand and Water Table with Umbrella promotes hours of water and sand play.
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A 16-foot water table with interactive components encourages them to make "rain," build aqueducts and conduct experiments with flow and pressure.
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"It's a giant sponge so if the water rises anywhere on the water table, it affects the whole cave system," Taylor explained.
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In Fallentimber, they had lost several dogs and donkeys to wasting illnesses that Lori suspected were related to a contaminated water table.
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Nearby communities have fought their construction because of the smell and concerns that they will leach contaminants into the groundwater and water table.
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The $22 Step229.99 Duck Pond Water Table is a fun and versatile toy that kept my one-year-old daughter entertained for hours.
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A 2130-foot water table with interactive components will encourage them to make "rain," build aqueducts and conduct experiments with flow and pressure.
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A 211010-foot water table with interactive components will encourage them to make "rain," build aqueducts and conduct experiments with flow and pressure.
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A 16-foot water table with interactive components will encourage them to make "rain," build aqueducts and conduct experiments with flow and pressure.
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This was both costly and risky: The organization couldn't ensure its disposal would not recontaminate the water table, risking the infection of others.
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The increasing forest fires and massive drought afflicting the Southwest may come in part from the draining of the water table below ground.
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They banned bore wells to prevent the water table from falling further and now cultivate vegetables instead of water-guzzling bananas and sugar cane.
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DesignThe Step2 Duck Pond Water Table is exactly like it's name — an activity table you can fill with water and the included little ducks.
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If the farmers choose to compost, state guidelines require that they dig the graves to a prescribed depth and proximity to the water table.
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This was preferable to the approach of creating a watertight concrete enclosure around the basement boiler, given the height of the underground water table.
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And because uranium milling is so water-intensive, the water table is dropping and the groundwater is showing higher concentrations of uranium, according to Il'ontoufigh.
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U.N. data indicate Iran is using 3.8 billion cubic metres of water a year more than is replaced, leading to a fast falling water table.
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Miami is largely built on sand or swamp and has a high water-table, making subterranean parking expensive; building above ground is a better option.
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The water table under Beijing had been subsiding at an alarming rate of between one and three metres a year because of pumping from wells.
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Dried peat emits carbon dioxide, and to prevent that, the Indonesia government is requiring peatland concession holders to plug drains and raise the water table.
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How it works: If the magma reaches the water table and is then covered by falling rocks, it could lead to an explosive steam explosion.
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A large number of graves also are below the water table, meaning History Flight workers must pump water from the site each day to excavate.
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U.N. data indicate Iran is using 3.8 billion cubic meters of water a year more than is replaced, leading to a fast falling water table.
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Those restrictions cut off the companies' access to groundwater in areas identified as "critical" and "dark zones", where the water table is overused or very low.
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Yet these borewells' impact on the water table, plus untrammelled urban development, have led to a drastic depletion of natural aquifers and a countrywide water crisis.
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The water table in Punjab, a state that soaks up an inordinate share of price-support subsidies, has been dropping by about a metre a year.
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PFOA entered the local water table, which supplied drinking water to the communities of Parkersburg, Vienna, Little Hocking and Lubeck — more than 100,000 people in all.
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They also fear that even this deeper tunnel could cause the area's water table to drop, with the oxygen exposure that entails for delicate archaeological sites.
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Environmentalists say the technique causes problems including pollution of the water table, and attempts to set up fracking operations in England have run into stiff opposition.
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Don Swanson, a geologist with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, said the magma is likely to drop below the water table around the middle of the month.
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Many of the graves located by History Flight are below the water table, meaning workers had to pump water from the sites each day to excavate.
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Before I bought my grandson a larger sandbox to have at my house, I bought him the Step2 Cascading Cove Sand and Water Table with Umbrella.
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The 18-inch foundation slab beneath the building is three times thicker than it would need to be in the absence of a high water table.
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And if choosing to bury the cows on the premises, farmers must follow a number of guidelines including grave depth and proximity to protect the water table.
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The locals stopped feeling sick, and la contaminación prompted health officials to do tests that confirmed the presence of arsenic in the water table, potentially saving lives.
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The key to understanding why the volcano activity switches from effusive to explosive over time is monitoring the relative levels of the magma and the water table.
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A brief explosion Wednesday on a Kilauea crater was the result of falling rocks and not the interaction of lava with the water table, the USGS said.
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The effects programmers set a water table so that when a car ran through the mud, water would rush in and pool to fill the tire tracks.
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This has happened before, most strikingly in 1924 when rock falls plugged the vent, and steam from the water table caused a massive pressure build-up — and explosion.
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By 2100 the Atlantic could devastate the area because of Florida's porous limestone bedrock and shallow water table, which allow water to well up even behind sea walls.
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This lava lake — called Halema&aposuma&aposu — is dropping dramatically, and if it goes below the water table, there could be a steamy and rocky explosion, geologists said.
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Rebuilding her house would require borrowing tens of thousands of dollars, at a minimum, to ship in enough dirt to keep the house above the water-table line.
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An oil company, personified by its chief executive (a rapacious Rob Lowe), is drilling in North Dakota when it hits a water-table mother lode of biological activity.
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The researchers have already entered and mapped out many of the cave's claustrophobic passageways above the water table, squeezing through crawl spaces only 40 centimeters wide in some places.
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Volcanologists on the island are now warning about truly explosive activity from this overlook vent, which might occur when the lava drops beneath the tropical island's rich water table.
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Results like these are exciting, and continue to paint 3.5-billion-year-old Mars as a wet place like present-day Earth, with oceans, rivers, and a water table.
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Meanwhile, the water rises from the ground in our yards because the water table is so high during high tide, and plants we once depended upon no longer grow.
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The mining company is responsible for pumping that water away, as well as pumping groundwater across the region, to keep the water table below the level of the existing mines.
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If the lake recedes below the underground water table, moisture hitting the lava would create huge amounts of steam, building pressure that would cause an explosion of super-heated rocks.
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Some experts offered an explanation for the sickness: Arsenic in the water table had been heated and vaporized by the impact energy and sent into the air as a gas.
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There are fears that rains are flushing toxins into the water table -- and concerns about how much worse the problem will become in the heat of the coming summer months.
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"When these lands are taken, the effects include pollution, damage to the water table and changes in the ecosystem that result in loss of livelihoods with no compensation," he said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A growing population is straining water supplies in Afghanistan's capital, forcing those who can afford it to dig unregulated wells ever deeper to tap a falling water table.
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Older reactors lack this feature and could suffer the "China Syndrome" with molten fuel burning into the ground and reaching the water table in case of an accident, Chevet said.
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The bog is laced with instruments to measure the water table, the evaporation of water from vegetation and other characteristics, but researchers are still uncertain why it is not recovering.
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Ms. Lin came up with an unconventional approach for her commission, designing a "water table" where a thin layer of water streams over the oval-shaped face of the sculpture.
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The water table is so high here, he said, that some septic systems sit in water, and residents must choose between showering or doing laundry because drainage is so poor.
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It's a part of the forest with poor, sandy soil and a high water table that stunts the growth of plants, but shelters a large variety of epiphytes like orchids.
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This is despite the fact that the water table in Beijing has dropped alarmingly over the decades, and enormous diversion works are sending some of the Yangzi's waters to the capital.
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It had rained for days, and, totally saturated, the water table rose up; the river, coursing angrily with a release from an upriver dam, overflowed its retaining walls into the streets.
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But according to Cuthbert's team, extreme flooding and drought in humid areas has a more immediate effect on aquifers because the water table in those regions is close to the surface.
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The system sanitizes and recycles 2000,22015 gallons of water annually, ensuring that the water is free enough of bacteria and other pathogens that it can be returned to the water table.
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The water table in this area is very shallow, only about 5 feet below the surface, and the hole had immediately filled with dark green water, which was bubbling from the heat.
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If it falls below the water table, water will pour onto the lava, generating steam that will likely explode from the summit in a shower of rocks, ash and sulfur dioxide gases.
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If it falls below the water table, water will pour onto the lava, generating steam that will likely explode from the summit in a shower or rocks, ash and sulfur dioxide gases.
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"It's a giant sponge so if the water rises anywhere on the water table, it affects the whole cave system," said Tim Taylor, an experienced ocean explorer and expert on underwater robotics.
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At the water table, a 13-year-old girl smears her arms with purple paint while a 1-year-old boy watches intently from a teacher's lap before toddling over to investigate.
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The reservation sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer, a million-year-old water table that spans eight states and provides water for drinking and agriculture for the residents of Lakota nation.
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Even if it had hit a hundred years ago, a storm like Florence would be catastrophic, but rising sea levels have lifted the water table, leaving less space for rainwater to drain.
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But as sea levels rise due to climate change, water table levels underground are also rising, meaning many septic tanks are unable to properly treat waste before it flows into the groundwater supply.
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Though there are no hard data, excessive drilling is "100%" lowering the water table, says Muhammad Wali, a turban-clad elder in Panjwai district who serves as the local mirabu or water manager.
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The most recent prison break involved a team of engineers who traveled to Germany for three months to figure out a solution to the low-lying water table beneath the maximum-security facility.
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The water table has retreated both in the flower-growing area of Naivasha, which lies 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest of the capital, and in Nanyuki, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Nairobi.
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Bangladesh has a thriving boring industry—teams of men who will drill tube wells dozens or hundreds of feet deep, depending on the height of the water table and levels of arsenic in the area.
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The Step2 Duck Pond Water Table ($29.99) ended up being the perfect solution; from the second I put the table together for her, she loved playing with it — even before I filled it with water.
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The details: The more explosive eruptions and related ash clouds are happening because the lava lake level in the volcano's crater has drained all the way down to near the level of the water table.
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The Chinese government recognizes the threat to the region's karez, and in recent years it has sought to ban the drilling of new wells that have contributed to a steady drop of the water table.
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Kilauea's falling lava lake has likely descended to a level at or below the water table, allowing water to run on to the top of its lava column and create steam-driven blasts, they said.
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"In the desert, we will likely always battle drought, so using almost half the water other brewers use to produce the same beer is going to be better for our local water table," Anderson said.
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The data they pick up reveals how rock layers, the water table, and other factors deep underground affect the conductivity of that region — and, in step, how much electricity a geomagnetic storm can induce there.
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Like Venice, Bangkok is also sinking but at an even faster rate; a combination of overdevelopment, rising seas and depletion of the water table mean Thailand's capital city could be underwater in as little 15 years.
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In the Gulf states of America, where much of our severe flooding occurs, black families have historically been forced to live in treacherous high water-table geographies due to centuries of systemic racism and housing discrimination.
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Overall, this is a simple water table that's cheaper than a lot of the other options on the market, so if you're looking for a wallet-friendly and versatile toy, this one will do the trick.
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I finally got Ellie to play with water via an appropriate toy, but now I just need to figure out how to get our dog to realize that the water table isn't a huge drinking bowl.
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So they accumulate, layer by layer, season by season, compressing into a dense, black carbon-rich mud of partly decayed matter that sinks below the shallow water table and is preserved there in an anaerobic state.
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Kimmo Kemppainen, research manager for the project, said that in characterizing and mapping the rock, it was important to locate, and avoid, fractures where water could flow, since the disposal site was below the water table.
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The court said its decision was based on a "precautionary principle," taking into account the "particular fragility" of the Atacama`s ecosystem and the "high level of scientific uncertainty" about the behavior of its water table.
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Mangroves once provided a healthy buffer against both salinity intruding into the water table and the heavy winds that drive seawater inland, but population pressure and aquaculture have put paid to a lot of Vietnam's mangrove forests.
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In the immediate future, the main threat to Roi-Namur and the other islands are that large waves can carry their water across the island and deposit salt into the water table and make the fresh water undrinkable.
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I was a little worried that she would be too young to play with a water table but she loves it, and I know that it will continue to be a fun toy as she moves through toddlerhood.
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This has in turn reduced the amount of organic matter the marshes produce, which acts as a counterweight to another reductive process, the constant settling and compacting of the organic platform that raises the marshland above the water table.
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Attempts to show massive environmental damage to the water table from acid runoff have nearly all been stymied, despite multiple attempts to force coal operations to pay for the costly cleanup required following the closing of a surface mine.
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And that takes us back to the bad news: In the longer term, this change is assaulting Miami from all sides, with increased rainfall from above and rising seas pushing in from the east, raising the water table below.
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After repeated raps from the NGT, the parliamentary agency that oversees cases related to environmental protection or disputes throughout the country, the Delhi Jal Board sealed around 750 illegal bore-wells in past month to prevent the swiftly depleting water table.
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Penn said Guzman sent engineers to Germany for three months of training on how to avoid problems when excavating near a low-lying water table beneath the prison where he was being held in order to perfect the audacious escape plan.
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"Thousands of children and their families are living in shelters on hilly areas with no trees, rocks or shrubs to hold sandy ground – much of which has now turned into mud - as the rains continue and the water table rises rapidly," he said.
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When sandy soil is saturated with water--like along a river or where the water table is high--and then subjected to an earthquake's shaking, the force that allows the individual grains of earth to support weight like a solid object is diminished.
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Water from the water table, which sits just over 50m above sea level, gets trapped inside the crater, where it heats to the point of quickly turning to steam, leading to violent explosions in which some of the crater walls turns to ash.
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Well, there's not even eight, seven stories allowed to build in Hilo or in Kona (both located on Hawaii's Big Island.) So we can't go that high in Hilo or Kona, why can you build double and go into our water table?
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While human rights groups criticized precarious conditions and child labor at the dump, environmentalists made the strongest case for closure, warning that it was polluting the water table beneath Brasilia, a city that has already has to ration water supplies due to recurrent droughts.
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Although it's not clear when or if a big explosion will occur, USGS has said that the lava lake within the crater has drained and could react with the water table, creating a steam-driven explosion that could hurl ash and large boulders miles away.
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But the practice of interring in aboveground vaults — which has nothing to do with a high water table, despite what the tour guides in New Orleans may say — is a tradition that goes back centuries in Louisiana, one that would not be easily given up.
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Meanwhile, her signature geometric punctures intercede in sharper whites, at the top and bottom of the canvas, with a deeper gray segment at the top composed of the multiple layerings and sheer drips that Dyson has been building on since her Water Table series.
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Until about the beginning of October, I felt like we were once again getting on top of the situation, but then we had this Hurricane Matthew on October the 4th and that led once again to big risk of increased cholera because it affected the water table.
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Keystone XL would transport crude oil from Canada and North Dakota to refineries on the Gulf Coast, cutting across the Ogallala Aquifer, a water table beneath eight states in the Great Plains that acts as a fresh water supply and provides water for crops and livestock.
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Increased precipitation driven by El Niño weather trends in the Pacific Ocean is causing wear on the city's adobe architecture and raising the water table at the site, even as less coastal parts of Peru face drought conditions and look to their ancient cities for survival tactics.
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The layout was intelligently deployed — from Renee Gladman's pale, expansive drawings, you moved toward a painting from Torkwase Dyson's Water Table series, overlooking Harold Mendez's sculptural black box, which itself concealed a pre-Columbian death mask, as though you were being drawn into ever darker and murkier depths.
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In a video from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (above), Herve Barbaret, former deputy of the Louvre, explains the museum has plans to install four large water pumps at a cost of around 14 million euro, in addition to pumps that already regulate the water table on a daily basis.
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The works in One, such as Dyson's acrylic painting, Value and Resources (Water Table #10), Mendez's found photo, let X stand, if it can for the one's unfound (After Proceso Pentágono) II and Gladman's drawing, Untitled, Scope, explore geography, location, violence and the limitations of text images in examining race, environment, and history.
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Even without Mr. Reid, most members of Nevada's congressional delegation are still vowing to fight the project, arguing that there are concerns about the long-term safety of drinking water supplies — unlike the Finnish repository, the Nevada site sits above the water table — and that above all, Nevadans do not want it.
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He's interested in the bones of Beirut, a city that has had to rebuild itself repeatedly after being razed in war in 140 B.C., then devastated by the earthquake of 551, then again during the civil war, a city whose name derives from the Canaanite be'erot — "wells" — the water table that still sustains it.
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Whether environmentalists who could be made to realize that a new prison would harm biodiversity, or local community members worried about a prison's impact on the water table or undeliverable promises of local employment, "whatever is already there, in terms of people who are organized, that is how to direct the work," Gilmore told me.
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Here are the best sandboxes you can buy:Best sandbox overall: Step2 Naturally Playful SandboxBest large sandbox for multiple kids: Sandlock 10-foot Rectangular Sandbox with CoverBest wooden sandbox: KidKraft Outdoor Sandbox with CanopyBest indoor sandbox: My Little Sandbox Pirate's TreasureBest budget sandbox: Little Tikes Big Digger SandboxBest water and sand table: Step2 Cascading Cove Sand & Water Table with Umbrella
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SATURN&aposS ICY MOON ENCELADUS, A POSSIBLE HOME FOR LIFE "The data constrain the macromolecular structure of organics detected in the ice grains and suggest the presence of a thin organic-rich film on top of the oceanic water table, where organic nucleation cores generated by the bursting of bubbles allow the probing of Enceladus' organic inventory in enhanced concentrations," the study reads.
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Related: Peruvian Activists Predict a Right-Wing President Will Bring More Conflicts Over Mines The drastic measures have been triggered by a wave of illegal gold mining in the area that has seen as many as 100,000 miners destroy vast swathes of the Amazon, ravage river ecosystems with dredgers, and poison the water table with mercury and other mining byproducts.
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