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artesian water

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artesian water [är′tē·zhən ′wȯd·ər]
(hydrology)
Groundwater that is under sufficient pressure to rise above the level at which it encounters a well, but which does not necessarily rise to or above the surface of the ground.


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According to the Los Angeles-based FIJI Water Company, their bottled-in-Fiji artesian water is "untouched by man" (which I would hope is pretty standard for drinking water) and, due to a high-tech bottling plant, has never come in contact with twenty-first-century air.
Some artesian water from New Zealand has an ORP of 30-40.
More than 4,000 farmers applied to the state to prospect their land for water during the first decade encouraged by drought, the new Scab Act (1895) with its compulsory dipping requirements and the artesian water strikes in Queensland.
 
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