Water Abstraction

Question 1

What is water abstraction

Answer 1

Taking water from a source, either temporarily or permanently
Mostly for domestic or agricultural reasons

Question 2

Abstraction in Mediterranean

Answer 2

Abstraction for agriculture and tourism causes salinisation
Demands for tourist resorts cause over abstraction

Question 3

Water abstraction from chalk in southern England

Answer 3

Water within chalk aquifer of southern England
Replenished by rainfall that lands on chalk hills

Question 4

What has caused fluctuations in groundwater levels in the London basin?

Answer 4

In London water is abstracted from wells that penetrated the chalk
The chalk-basal sands aquifer has been increasingly exploited as a result of industrialisation

Question 5

Soil drainage

Answer 5

Removes excess water from the soil profile
Carried in a network of tubes below the surface
Seep into spaces between tiles and drain away