List of aquifers
The following is a partial list of aquifers around the world. A category-based list of aquifers is also available.
North America
Canada
- Arkell Spring Grounds
- Laurentian River System
- Northern Great Plains Aquifer
- Oak Ridges Moraine - North of Toronto Ontario
United States
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains Aquifer
- Biscayne Aquifer
- Bruceian Aquifer
- Cambro-Ordovician Aquifer System
- California Central Valley Aquifer System
- Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer
- Edwards Aquifer
- Englishtown Aquifer
- Floridan Aquifer
- Great Miami Aquifer
- Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer
- Lloyd Aquifer
- Magothy (aquifer) - largest of Long Island's aquifers
- Mahomet Aquifer
- Medina Aquifer
- Mt. Laurel-Wenonah Aquifer
- Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High Plains Aquifer
- Ozark Plateau Aquifer
- Patapsco aquifer
- Permian Sea
- Potomac-Raritan-Magothy Aquifer
- San Diego Formation [1]
- San Joaquin River Aquifer
- Sankoty Aquifer
- Silurian-Devonian aquifers
- Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer [2][3]
Mexico
- Texcoco aquifer, one of the most overexploited in the country [4]
South America
- Amazon Basin
- Maranhao Basin
- Guarani Aquifer System
- Hamza River
Australia
New Zealand
- Canterbury Plains Aquifer (Christchurch)
Africa
- Bas Saharan Basin
- Lotikipi Basin Aquifer
- Murzuk-Djado Basin
- Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System
Europe
- Alnarpsströmmen (Sweden)
- Chalk Aquifer (England)
- Paris Basin (France)
- North Caucasus Basin (Russia)
- Russian Platform Basins (Russia)
- Schwyll Aquifer (Wales)
- Upper Rhine aquifer (France / Germany)
Middle-East
- Arabian Aquifer System
- Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer, also known as Mountain Aquifer (Israel-Palestine)
Asia
- Indus Basin
- Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin
- West Siberian Basin
- Tunguss Basin
- Angara-Lena Basin
- Yakut Basin
- North China Aquifer System
- Song-Liao Basin
- Tarim Basin
- Pechora Basin
References
- ↑ San Diego County Water Authority - Water Management - Local Resources
- ↑ Spokane Aquifer Tour
- ↑ commons.wikimedia.org: File:SVRP Aquifer Map.PNG
- ↑ Rodríguez Wallenius, C. (2008). Conflictos entre comunidades rurales y municipios urbanos por el agua en el centro de México (Conflicts between rural communities and urban municipalities due to water in central Mexico). Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco. México.
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