Ogallala Aquifer
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The Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.
NASA ASTER image of a roughly 557 mi2 area of fields (1443 km2) in Kansas watered from the Ogallala Aquifer with center pivot irrigation systems
Fossil water
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Fossil water, fossil groundwater, or paleowater is an ancient body of water that has been contained in some undisturbed space, typically groundwater in an aquifer, for millennia. Other types of fossil
Ogallala Aquifer
…south. Present-day recharge of the aquifer with fresh water occurs at an exceedingly slow rate, suggesting that much of the water in its pore spaces is paleowater, dating back to the most recent ice age and probably earlier. An impervious geological layer between the aquifer and surface of the land, combined with…
Transport of pipe segments for the Great Manmade River in Libya: a network of pipes that supplies water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.