The Edwards Aquifer Essay

The Edwards Aquifer is the most efficient way people of San Antonio and close areas have found to get water. The Aquifer stretches 160 miles long and as much as 40 feet In with. The aquifer runs from aquifer is one of the largest aquifer in North America and maybe the largest in the world. Kinney all the way to the Comal Counties. San Antonio is located just above the Artesian Zone which water travels all the way from Delrio. The Artesian is where the best water of the aquifer comes from. One part of the aquifer that was created was The Seco Creek Recharge Project; the creek is where a collection of rain collects in the creek finding it was to a sinkhole that leads to the aquifer. The Edwards Aquifer is the most efficient way people of San Antonio and close areas have found to get water. What interreges me the most is how water enters sinkholes and end up in the aquifer. The nearest locations that would be worth examining would be The Devils Sinkhole located in Rocksprings Texas. The Devils Sinkhole was discovered by Ammon Billing, who settled in Edwards County May1, 1876. Some important background information states that in the 1980s and the 1990s serious droughts brought the required attention to the water system so plans to make the use of water more efficient came into play. In t he year 2000 statistics were announced declaring that that year The Edwards Aquifer supplied 1.7 million people with water which was a eight time increases since 1940, it was said that in the year 2030, the aquifer would need to supply 2.6 million people with water. Putting aside the boring part of The Edwards Aquifer is what I think is the second most interesting part, the animal and plant life that inhabit the aquifer. After going to the Museum on Broadway Street here in San Antonio, I learned that animals actually lived in the water we drink. The most commonly found species are different salamander species that usual. I read in the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance website that the salamanders found in the aquifer where subject to parallel evolution, which when salamanders from different springs are distinct species, but resemble not just each other but also salamanders found in karst limestone aquifers in other parts of the world. I also read that fish species easiest in the aquifer and no where else such as the Texas Blind Catfish, which only live within the San Antonio section of the aquifer; the Fountain Darter and San Marcos gambusia from the San Marcos River.