| 1. | This latter case is sometimes called " fossil water ", and is realistically non-renewable.
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| 2. | Fossil water can potentially dissolve and absorb a number of ions from its host rock.
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| 3. | The term fossil water is sometimes used to describe aquifers whose water is not being recharged.
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| 4. | Fossil water aquifers can also be artesian if they are under sufficient pressure from the surrounding rocks.
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| 5. | Particularly old groundwater is called fossil water.
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| 6. | The "'Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System "'( NSAS ) is the world s largest known fossil water aquifer system.
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| 7. | Aquifer drawdown or overdrafting and the pumping of fossil water may be a contributing factor to sea-level rise.
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| 8. | Libya and Egypt are currently planning development projects to withdraw significant amounts of the aquifer s fossil water for use.
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| 9. | As fossil water is a non-renewable resource, over the six centuries of the Garamantian kingdom, the ground water level fell.
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| 10. | For example : aquifer drawdown or overdrafting and the pumping of fossil water may be a contributing factor to sea-level rise.
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