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Originally Posted by Azure
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.
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Studies have been conducted on injecting water into aquifers, albeit using surface water.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2015/5054/sir20155054.pdf
May you expand on your idea of remineralization into the aquifer by limestone/calcite dissolution? I see what you’re saying, but I believe that would take time for dissolution to occur.