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The Water We Rely On: A Series
Story air date: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Bill Hammack has been doing a lot of thinking about east-central Illinois’ water supply. You may know him as WILL’s “Engineer Guy,” bringing complex scientific issues closer to home. All this week, Bill is taking a look at how we use water, how much we have and how we manage it for the future. The different ways we use water at home may seem obvious – but in Part 4, Bill finds some ways we may never have suspected.
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Part 1: Bill Hammack begins the first part of his journey not far from his front door:
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Part 2: Bill Hammack treks through the new Illinois-American well field near Bondville in Champaign County and asks whether these wells will suck dry the Mahomet Aquifer. To get a closer look at the situation, he pays a visit to a house right near where the well field is supposed to be drilled:
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Part 3: Bill Hammack examines what it may take to use the area’s massive underground water supply -- the Mahomet Aquifer – responsibly:
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business • economy • environment • water resources • government • science • urban planning
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