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... groundwater ( there are now 1,530,000 motorized pump - wells in this region ) ; and the third , the im- provement of water resources management . By 1990 72 per cent of the theoretically allowable maximum volume of groundwater was being ...
... groundwater ( there are now 1,530,000 motorized pump - wells in this region ) ; and the third , the im- provement of water resources management . By 1990 72 per cent of the theoretically allowable maximum volume of groundwater was being ...
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... groundwater level . " Thus before irrigation began , the water table in the project area was at depths between 20 and 60m . At the time of this article , it was found no more than 3m below ground . From groundwater mounds in the Hidia ...
... groundwater level . " Thus before irrigation began , the water table in the project area was at depths between 20 and 60m . At the time of this article , it was found no more than 3m below ground . From groundwater mounds in the Hidia ...
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... groundwater . The area is underlain by ' a relatively thick aquifer of Miocene limestone deposits ' and irrigation could be developed from its own local water resources . As this is well known , costly trans - basin convey- ance of ...
... groundwater . The area is underlain by ' a relatively thick aquifer of Miocene limestone deposits ' and irrigation could be developed from its own local water resources . As this is well known , costly trans - basin convey- ance of ...
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