groundwater
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 018WaterAquifer Recharge: Putting Water Back Underground
Managed recharge from check dams to infiltration basins, why underground storage beats surface storage, and how to avoid recharging pollution.
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№ 374WaterQanats and Karez: The Underground Canals of the Dry World
The ancient gently-sloping tunnels that tap mountain groundwater and carry it for miles underground to the desert's edge — gravity-fed, evaporation-proof, and self-limiting water systems that watered civilisations.
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№ 408WaterSand Dams: Storing Water Inside a Riverbed
A concrete wall built across a seasonal sandy river traps sand behind it, and the sand stores water — a simple, cheap, evaporation-proof reservoir that has transformed water supply across the drylands of East Africa.
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№ 516WaterWells and Boreholes: Taking Water from Underground
How aquifers actually behave, the difference between a dug well and a drilled borehole, and why the drawdown that matters is your neighbour's.
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