are we 100% that the waters of the colorado for example and not drying up and are going underground. it is known that large pockets of water are found underground. take for example the wells that us country folk use. all the water has to come from more than just rain it has to be fed from somewhere and what better place than a river? please let me know if you find some faults with this idea of thinking or if you agree. thank you
The problem is that an underground aquifer generally has a fixed size, and more water cannot be made to flow through it than it has capacity for. A river can simply overflow its banks; an aquifer doesn’t have banks. If it is true that the water is going underground, that will be because we are drawing more out of the aquifer than its capacity.
Underground rivers are not rivers in the sense that we know about surface rivers. Absent some kind of cave system, they are water flowing through porous rock between non-porous layers, at rates much slower than a surface river, and therefore taking longer to replenish as well. Water entering such a system may well spend tens of years below ground before finding its way out.
The problem is that an underground aquifer generally has a fixed size, and more water cannot be made to flow through it than it has capacity for. A river can simply overflow its banks; an aquifer doesn’t have banks. If it is true that the water is going underground, that will be because we are drawing more out of the aquifer than its capacity.
Underground rivers are not rivers in the sense that we know about surface rivers. Absent some kind of cave system, they are water flowing through porous rock between non-porous layers, at rates much slower than a surface river, and therefore taking longer to replenish as well. Water entering such a system may well spend tens of years below ground before finding its way out.
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