Pros+Cons of Groundwater supplies
- Created by: Brad_ers_B
- Created on: 29-12-14 14:30
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- Groundwater supply
- Advantages
- Rocks naturally filter water
- No loss of water from evaporation
- No dam required
- If in an artesian basin, pumping costs low
- Disadvantages
- Requires sedimentary rock and aquifers
- Problem of surface subsidence
- Pollutants have a long residence time
- Pumping costs as water has to be vertically raised
- Groundwater can contain dissolved salts making it bracksh (Not potable)
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