Lexicographical Neighbors of Overextraction
Literary usage of Overextraction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diversity, Globalization, and the Ways of Nature by Danilo J. Anton (1995)
"... New Mexico, and Nebraska comes from this huge underground basin. Continued
overextraction has gradually reduced pressure in the aquifer — wells ..."
2. Thirsty Cities: Urban Environments and Water Supply in Latin Americaby Danilo J. Anton by Danilo J. Anton (1993)
"As a result, overextraction may lower the level of groundwater, thus increasing
pumping costs and risking complete loss of water from higher areas of the ..."
3. Water Balances in the Eastern Mediterraneanby David B. Brooks, Ozay Mehmet by David B. Brooks, Ozay Mehmet (2000)
"The result has been overextraction of water from the country's aquifers. So far,
national measures to mitigate the supply-demand deficit appear to have been ..."
4. Global Environmental Risk by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson (2001)
"The latter, being insensitive to local circumstances and indifferent to its side
effects, accelerates the process of overextraction. ..."
5. Environmental Performance Reviews by Oecd, OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (2001)
"Persistent problems are nitrate contamination by agriculture and salinisation
from overextraction and from sea water intrusion of coastal aquifers. ..."
6. Oecd Environmental Performance Reviews by OECD Staff (1995)
"Water depletion beneath nature areas, caused by agricultural drainage and
overextraction of groundwater, affects 10 per cent of the country and seriously ..."
7. China Environmental Technologies Export Market Plan by International Trade Administration, United States (2002)
"Serious overextraction of groundwater is resulting in significant effects such
as subsidence at rates exceeding 25 to 40 millimeters per year in some cities ..."
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