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Originally Posted by Fuzz
If you are pumping from the aquifer to get water, what is the purpose of recharging the aquifer just to pump from it? Why wouldn't you just use the water directly?
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I'd imagine large aquifers have many pump stations pulling water from them.
If you just replenish the aquifer all those pump stations can continue pulling from them without needing to rebuild a lot of infrastructure.
Also, aquifers do not have to deal with water evaporation issues, which is something canals and reservoirs struggle with a lot.
Often times replenishing an aquifer is literally as simple as drilling a well and dropping water into it.
Another great thing about this idea is that aquifers tend to remineralize & filter the water if there are limestone and other deposits underneath.