Water Resources-Aquifer Depletion
November 18, 2007
Jennifer Brinningstaull
Active Student
Axia College University of Phoenix

If given the opportunity to research any of the resource problems, I would choose to research the water resources problems. The reason for this is because the world can not exist without water. Every living thing depends on water and would not survive without it. Of all the water resource problems that we currently have, I believe that the one most important to solve would be the depletion of aquifer supplies.
An aquifer is the body of sand that is able to store or produce large amounts of water. It can be anywhere from a few feet deep to a few hundred feet deep. From a birds eye view it can spread as far as a few miles. There are two kinds of aquifers, confined and unconfined. A confined aquifer is surrounded by what is called an aquitard, rock formations that do not allow fluid to leak through. "An unconfined aquifer is one that is hydraulically......

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