A geological structure in which water is confined under pressure.
cattlemen were drawing water from an artesian basin underneath the parched inland plains
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- Early white records also spoke of a tribe of men over two metres tall living in south-west Queensland, where water from the Great Artesian Basin used to bubble forth in springs.
- Does that mean they are just going to pump more from the artesian basin to compensate?
- The report consists of a number of maps and plates relating to artesian basins in New South Wales.
- It was argued that the Artesian basin below Australia could be tapped for water.
- That artesian basin is where we get our drinking water from.
- Blackall was the first town in Queensland to attempt tapping the great artesian basin for a town water supply.
- There's also the threat to Kowanyama's water supplies caused by alarming falls in the pressure of the artesian basin.
- Nuclear waste dumps get put in quickly and with little consideration for water-tables and the artesian basins far below.
- The kinetic energy contained within the water of the Great Artesian Basin aquifer is estimated to be sufficient to power a quarter of the east coast's power needs.
- The people of Alice Springs would be bordering on furious that nuclear waste could be dumped 30 kilometres from their town, which of course sits on the Artesian Basin.