"George E. Cawthon" writes:


[...]

What gets contaminated in ground water or "aquifer" if you prefer.
There's another common mistake "ground water aquifer" because ground
water and aquifer mean the same thing. Oops, guess the old editor job
just spilled out.

mode="nitpick"
Isn't the aquifer rather the structure in the ground that contains the
ground water than the water itself? The word certainly means that (it
would be something like "water carrier").
/mode
;-)
Juergen

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