Fresh Water/Oceans

Fresh Water

Where are we now?

Nearly half the folks in North Carolina pump their water from wells. We know quite a bit about underground water in some areas of the state, such as in the coastal plain. Yet for other areas, we know very little about:

• The speed with which water flows underground
  
  
• The way in which water is replenished in underground sources
  
  
• The way in which water moves from one level to another

In some places we are now removing deeper water that has been there for thousands of years. And in some areas, the water underground is not refilling fast enough. Once removed from some of the deeper sources, it might never fill up again.

North Carolina has 17 river basins. Some are fed from Virginia and many flow into South Carolina. Whatever gets into our lakes and rivers affects not only ourselves, but thousands of others downstream.