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  2. Drinking water - Wikipedia

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    These improved drinking water sources include household connection, public standpipe, borehole condition, protected dug well, protected spring, and rain water collection. Sources that do not encourage improved drinking water to the same extent as previously mentioned include: unprotected wells, unprotected springs, rivers or ponds, vender ...

  3. Well - Wikipedia

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    Man cleaning a well in Yaoundé, Cameroon Hand pump to pump water from a well in a village near Chennai in India, where the well water might be polluted by nearby pit latrines. Shallow pumping wells can often supply drinking water at a very low cost. However, impurities from the surface easily reach shallow sources, which leads to a greater ...

  4. Aquifer storage and recovery - Wikipedia

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    The first agriculture ASR wells were put into service in Oregon in the autumn of 2006 and have injected well over 3,000 acre-feet (3,700,000 m 3) of water during the winter and spring flood flow times using artificial recharge (AR) of flood water as their water source. This shallow recharged water is then recovered as potable water and injected ...

  5. Nearly 30 private wells could be in aquifer 'drawdown' zone ...

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    The agency said it identified 13 drinking-water wells drawing from the aquifer within the mitigation zone, along with three agricultural wells. The aquifer level is projected to drop between 8 and ...

  6. History of water supply and sanitation - Wikipedia

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    In Nepal the construction of water conduits like drinking fountains and wells is considered a pious act. [34] [35] A drinking water supply system was developed starting at least as early as 550 AD. [36] This dhunge dhara or hiti system consists of carved stone fountains through which water flows uninterrupted from underground sources. These are ...

  7. Thousands of California wells are at risk of drying up ...

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    Even though California enacted sweeping legislation nearly a decade ago to curb excessive agricultural pumping of groundwater, new research predicts that thousands of drinking water wells could ...