groundwater pump Articles
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Your Guide to Submersible Pump Functions and Benefits
Submersible pumps are devices with hermetically sealed motors that are close-coupled to their bodies. The entire pump assembly remains submerged in the fluid that has to be pumped. The main submersible water pump function is to drain water from various places. Submersible pumps are used in a wide range of applications, from groundwater pumping to sewage treatment. These pumps can drain ...
By DAE Pumps
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Groundwater Level and Surface Water Depletion Linked
Study’s computer model could be influential in future water management A new study looking at a century of groundwater declines in the continental United States has concluded that overpumping water from aquifers is responsible for up to half of the river flow declines that now threaten economies and public health in many regions. The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, said ...
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Simulation of seawater intrusion in the Nile Delta aquifer under the conditions of climate change
The problem of seawater intrusion is encountered in almost all coastal aquifers. Because of its higher density, the seawater migrates inland into freshwater aquifers even without any pumping activities. Excessive pumping of groundwater would accelerate seawater intrusion. Climate change and sea level rise represent critical parameters affecting the rate and degree of seawater intrusion. In ...
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Can technology assist NFM (Natural Floodplain Management) and by extension SUDs solutions?
At Aquobex and our partners Groundwater Dynamics we believe it can. In fact, we believe it will allow the ideas to be migrated and implemented in urban areas as well. Natural Floodplain Management (NFM) is an emerging solution that is gaining traction with communities and the Environment Agency for a number of reasons aside from simply Slowing the Flow of impending flood events. A natural ...
By Aquobex
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Hey, America: It’s time to talk about the price of water
Recent woes have drawn unprecedented attention to the worth of fresh, clean water. Can it change the way we pay for the world’s most undervalued resource? This summer, a 90-year-old water pipe burst under Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, sending a geyser 30 feet into the air and a flood of troubles over the UCLA campus. Raging water and mud trapped five people, swamped 1,000 cars and ...
By Ensia
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Removing heavy iron deposits improves effluent output and Decreases costs - Case Study
The Problem At a local manufacturing facility, ground water pumped with #6 oil was heavily impacted with iron deposits. Heated water and product was being pumped into the existing oil water separator, but the iron fouling the unit and the downstream carbon filter and dry well limited flow. Frequent carbon replacement was required and was very costly. The Solution Hydro Quip, Inc. provided a ...
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Cities are finally treating water as a resource, not a nuisance
From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising ways urban areas are dealing with water woes Memorial Day barbecues and parades were thwarted this year in Houston when a massive storm dumped more than 10 inches of rain in two days, creating a Waterworld of flooded freeways, cars, houses and businesses, leaving several people dead and hundreds in need of rescue. But it was a predictable disaster. ...
By Ensia
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Who Owns Groundwater?
California’s drought underscores the need to improve how the state - and the rest of us - divvy up a resource in demand. Grapevines march across wires strung along rolling hills, their little trunks improbably supporting heavy black fruit. Cindy Steinbeck’s family has been farming this land since 1920. They grow Zinfandel, Viognier, Cabernet, Merlot, and Petite Syrah grapes but are ...
By Ensia
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Expert assessment: Sea-level rise could exceed one meter in this century
Sea-level rise in this century is likely to be 70-120 centimeters by 2100 if greenhouse-gas emissions are not mitigated, a broad assessment of the most active scientific publishers on that topic has revealed. The 90 experts participating in the survey anticipate a median sea-level rise of 200-300 centimeters by the year 2300 for a scenario with unmitigated emissions. In contrast, for a scenario ...
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California’s Water Storage Proposals
The huge state, with its wide range of geography and climate, is thinking creatively to avoid water crises As Californian dry seasons become more brutal, the state finds itself in need of more water storage. Environmental concerns and a changing demand structure are sparking some creative thinking to take advantage of natural topography and to avoid the traditional go-to solution of building ...
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Rebekah Eggers: It’s time to get serious about AI
Rebekah Eggers is on a mission to ensure that man, woman and machine can evolve harmoniously together. Here, IBM’s IoT expert talks about her childhood influences, why blockchain should be taken seriously and artificial intelligence in the water utility market. IBM’s IoT expert discusses why blockchain and AI should be taken seriously Why now is the time for action Blockchain is a ...
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US groundwater protection regulations `not comprehensive enough`
Groundwater protection is the responsibility of everyone including the chemical industry. An energetic group of state and federal groundwater agencies, industry, environmentalists and other stakeholders, however, has made it a key area of their focus. The Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) is a nonprofit Section 501(c)(6) organization dedicated to promoting and ensuring the use of best ...
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Water’s Growing Importance in the Data Center Sector
Reliance on nontraditional water sources, like water reuse, is increasing Data centers are springing up around the world to support ever-growing reliance on computers. While data centers have long faced scrutiny for the amount of electricity they use, the public eye is now slowly turning to the large amounts of water they use for cooling. Soon, water risk may be the largest problem data centers ...
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Produced Water - What You Need to Know
Extracting oil and gas comes with various challenges, one of which is how to deal with the produced water that comes with the oil and gas. In this article, we are going to take a look at produced water: What is produced water Produced water treatment How to dispose of produced water Produced water fracking We’re also going to have a closer look at the pumps that handle produced ...
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Balancing Sustainable Groundwater Use and Crop Yields
Strategies like managed aquifer recharge can help strike a balance between crop yields and groundwater preservation In the United States, the production of three key crops relies heavily on irrigation, but in some regions, groundwater use for irrigation far outpaces natural aquifer recharge rates. As aquifers are depleted, a number of ill effects follow. Ultimately, they may provide less water ...
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Combatting Groundwater Depletion in Texas
Desalination and wastewater treatment for reuse makes managing essential resources possible Texas is pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates, which means more wells, springs, and surface water bodies may start to run dry. The state is already losing groundwater at almost double the sustainable rate, and researchers warn that current management agency plans will likely increase the rate at ...
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Meeting Melbourne's future demand for water using aquifer storage and recovery
Melbourne is one of the fastest growing cities in Australia. City West Water (CWW) has developed an Integrated Water Cycle Management (IWCM) Strategy which includes the development of aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) schemes to store recycled water and storm water to assist with meeting future growth, where these schemes can be demonstrated to be viable and cost effective. The investigation ...
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Impact of sea level rise and over-pumping on seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers
Climate change, sea level rise, over-pumping and saltwater intrusion present some of the future challenges of water resources management in coastal areas. Over-abstraction is considered one of the main causes of seawater intrusion and the rise in sea levels accelerates the intrusion. With the combined impact of sea level rise and over-pumping the problem becomes exacerbated and requires urgent ...
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The Future of Drinking Water
Predicted future growth in population numbers and rising sea levels mean demand for drinking water will continue to increase just as the natural availability of freshwater decreases. It is likely that brackish groundwater will be an important source of drinking water in the future, but the current methods used to produce fresh water from this source are expensive in terms of their energy use and ...
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Semi-analytical 3D solution for assessing radial collector well pumping impacts on groundwater–surface water interaction
We present a new semi-analytical flow and transport model for the simulation of 3D steady-state flow and particle movement between groundwater, a surface water body and a radial collector well in geometrically complex unconfined aquifers. This precise and grid-free Series Solution-analytic element method approach handles the irregular configurations of radial wells more efficiently than ...
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