This is a great question with several different ramifications and conditions. The question illuminates the reality that the world gets a voluminous amount of water from rain, which runs all over the place as what we call storm water. In most geographies the majority of our rain/stormwater winds up flowing to streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually out to our oceans or into the atmosphere by way of evaporation. For…
Aquifer
Dumping Industrial Waste Water into an Aquifer!
Here in Memphis a local company is petitioning to be allowed to inject partially treated waste-water into the Memphis Sand Aquifer (MSA), which delivers one of the best drinking waters in the world. A lot of folks are up in arms and on the surface it would seem for good reason. To most, the thought of purposely contaminating a drinking water aquifer with partially treated industrial waste-water seems too bizarre…
Groundwater Protection
Throughout the US the Federal government has up to this point steered clear of getting involved in groundwater rights. Environmentalists and Conservationists hate the idea of individuals and businesses having an unrestricted right to pull as much water out of the ground as they choose. Property rights, thank God, are still sovereign in the US, so if your property has water or minerals under it, they both belong to you.…