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
- Saginaw 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
- Botany Sands Aquifer
- Canning Basin
- Gnangara Mound
- Great Artesian Basin
- Jandakot Mound
- Yarragadee Aquifer
New Zealand
- Canterbury Plains Aquifer (Christchurch)
- Waiwhetu Aquifer (Wellington)
Africa
- Bas Saharan Basin
- Lotikipi Basin Aquifer (Kenya)
- 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
- Sambai oothu Aquifer (Karaikudi, India)
- Indo-Gangetic Aquifer System
References
- ^ San Diego County Water Authority - Water Management - Local Resources Archived 2010-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Spokane Aquifer Tour Archived 2010-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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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