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  • Other items in the newsletter include - an article about Boreholes at Crossness - a review of the performance of Hamlet in the engine house - picures of various bits of insect life found around the site - more news about restoring their amazing set of pumping engines - and so on Check them out at www.crossness.org.uk

    Archive 2008-10-01 M 2008

  • Boreholes sunk in the 1970s to provide clean water in Bangladesh have tapped into groundwater tainted by naturally occurring arsenic.

    Snap Judgment: Books 2007

  • For a moment I thought you were going to go on and refer to Tree Rings, Ice Boreholes, or….well all the climate proxies.

    Bender's Plot of Hurricane Count « Climate Audit 2006

  • Boreholes a physical measurements capturing the entire year.

    Bring the Proxies Up to Date!! « Climate Audit 2005

  • Boreholes can be constructed by machine or by hand-operated equipment and usually consist of three main parts:

    Chapter 5 2000

  • Boreholes in some rural areas had run dry but the situation was under control.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Boreholes to greater depths may be a solution to this problem.

    Chapter 10 1996

  • Boreholes and small-scale dams were drying up but no cattle or human lives had been lost.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Boreholes may be cleaned by flushing out the polluted water with water from a clean source or by repeatedly disinfecting the borehole and pumping it out.

    7. Typical Scenarios 1994

  • Boreholes are drilled by machine (rig) (See 6.28; 6.30).

    6. Water sources, their protection and development 1992

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