| The quantities of contemporary recharge are negligible in comparison with the general quantity of fossil water stored in the aquifers. |
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| Officials attributed this abrupt reversal in food policy to the impact of climate change, drought, and the depletion of fossil water. |
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| The fossil water is characterized by high total mineralization as a result of long residence times in the subsurface. |
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| Any decision to extract fossil water should undergo comprehensive studies aiming at conserving coming generations' rights to these resources. |
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| Unsustainable agricultural production has therefore resulted in over-exploitation of fossil water reserves and the depletion of underground aquifers throughout the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| We are currently unsustainably overpumping our supply of this fossil water to grow grain for export to China, Russia, Egypt, and other countries that can't grow enough food to feed themselves. |
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| The limited and precious supply of fossil water represents a residue of millions of years of water storage, once sealed safely in nature's underground reservoirs. |
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| It lies close to fossil groundwater but perversely the national government decided to devote almost all the fossil water to agriculture rather than to supplying the city. |
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| This is explained by the use of technology such as seawater desalination or tapping into non-renewable fossil water. |
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| With the drying up of fossil water used for irrigation, a vast swath of the nation's granary will dry up early in the coming century. |
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| Agriculture, industry, and growing urban demand draw increasingly on fossil water deposits that can date back more than 100,000 years. |
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| The rest of Canada's water is fossil water that is stored either in lakes, ice or snow. |
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| The switch in the Sahel to irrigation farming, through the use of fossil water resources, would be a possible form of reactive adaptation. |
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| Groundwater, including non-renewable fossil water, is of primary importance in most countries of the region. |
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| In a network of pipes that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi has called the eighth wonder of the world, Libya is drawing fossil water that has lain undisturbed for centuries. |
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| China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia. |
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| Controversy surrounds the mining of fossil water. |
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| Some of the deepest groundwater aquifers lie hundreds of meters below the surface and contain fossil water, water that has remained in an aquifer for thousands of years. |
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| Water tables are falling throughout the region as demand from rapidly urbanising and industrializing populations exceeds supply from fossil water and local aquifers. |
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| The Garamantes achieved this development by digging tunnels far into the mountains flanking the valley to tap fossil water and bring it to their fields. |
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| Fossil water is difficult to assess, is not renewable, and may be termed gray water. |
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