Potomac is known for its Artesian wells, and its local High School teams were known as the " Potomac Artesians " until area secondary school consolidation in the late 1980s.

Artesian wells in the area are known for their pure, clean water.

Artesian wells and a rural health center station have likewise been established.

Artesian wells were named after the former province of Artois in France, where many artesian wells were drilled by Carthusian monks from 1126.

He named the Prairie du Chien estate the Artesian Stock Farm because of the artesian wells on the property.

Artesian wells are named after the town of Artois in France, where the first one was drilled by Carthusian monks in 1126.

The refuge includes Artesian wells, pumped wells and irrigation canals, some dating to the " ditch boom " of the 1880s.

Artesian wells, open wells, and springs comprise the common source of potable water for the rural areas.

In downtown Olympia, current efforts to preserve the use of artesian water at one of the remaining public wells has been the mission of H2Olympia: Artesian Well Advocates.

On 21 February 2011, ABC Four Corners revealed that significant concerns were being expressed about depletion and chemical damage to the Great Artesian Basin as a result of coal seam gas extraction.

In 1902 the Pilliga Artesian Bore Baths were constructed as a permanent town water supply.

Louis's plans for the Artesian Stock Farm were never fully realized.

But southern parts of its course must be much younger because the areas where the Finke now flows near the southern edge of the Northern Territory, and further south, were under the sea during the Mesozoic Era, part of the Great Artesian Basin.

By 1916 enough bores had been sunk into the Great Artesian Basin along the route, that the movement of stock was much easier and safer than in earlier years.

* 1859: the first anthracite coal breaker in America, the Racket Brook Breaker, was erected by the D & H, adjacent to the company's coal and rail operations in the vicinity of the Artesian Well.

The present site was named Somerset when the First Townsite Company was formed on the Artesian Belt Railroad right-of-way on May 25, 1909, by A. M. Pyron, Carl Kurz, and Jonas A. Kerr.

Blackall was one of the first Queensland towns to sink an artesian bore in 1885, which now supplies the town with water from the Great Artesian Basin.

In 1895 the Great Artesian Basin which sits under Moree was tapped and yields over thirteen million litres of water every day.

When the town was active, water was pumped from an underground Artesian aquifer but now, all water is carried in by train.

A bore was sunk into the Great Artesian Basin in 1933.

In 1985, a modern production facility was built on Artesian Street in Downtown Corpus Christi.

The discovery and use of water held underground in the Great Artesian Basin opened up thousands of square miles of country away from rivers in inland New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, previously unavailable for pastoral activities.

The Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee ( GABCC ) provides advice from community organisations and agencies to State, Territory and Australian Government Ministers on efficient, effective and sustainable whole-of-Basin resource management and to coordinate activity between stakeholders.

Artesian springs, bubbling up from a vast reservoir of underground water, fed into running streams that harbored giant catfish, crawfish, and mussels.

Bore water for the town is obtained from the Artesian Basin.

By comparing the age of groundwater obtained from different parts of the Great Artesian Basin, hydrogeologists have found it increases in age across the basin.

This means that in order to have travelled almost 1000 km from the source of recharge in 1 million years, the groundwater flowing through the Great Artesian Basin travels at an average rate of about 1 metre per year.

* Hydraulic head from mountain ranges, for example, the Great Artesian Basin

Other innovations included private, ensuite bathrooms in the majority of its 268 rooms, lavishly appointed in marble ; constant hot and cold running water in each room, dinner dances, glazed brickwork designed to prevent London's smoke-laden air from spoiling the external walls, and its own Artesian well.

The Toowoomba Regional Council began supplementing the city's water supply with bore water from the Great Artesian Basin in September 2009.

The town water for Aramac is supplied from two bores connecting into the Great Artesian Basin.

Along the Track are numerous springs feeding water from the Great Artesian Basin, the most accessible examples being the mound springs found in Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park near Coward Springs.

Lightning Ridge has abundant hot water from a bore spring into the Great Artesian Basin and offers two hot water pools for bathing.

Thargomindah has a pressurised hot spring from a bore into the Great Artesian Basin and has produced hydroelectric power from the basin in the past.

Other typical sights include irrigation systems, windmills serving as water well pumps to get water from the Great Artesian Basin, light planes crop-dusting, rusty old woolsheds and other scattered remnants from a bygone era of early exploration and settlement.

He served earlier at the CSIRO laboratries at Townsville in Queensland where, among other things, he studied the Great Artesian Basin and the transport of water from the Great Dividing Range into the outback of Queensland and New South Wales.

Named after the Guarani people, it covers 1, 200, 000 km², with a volume of about 40, 000 km³, a thickness of between 50 m and 800 m and a maximum depth of about 1, 800 m. It is estimated to contain about 37, 000 km³ of water ( arguably the largest single body of groundwater in the world, although the overall volume of the constituent parts of the Great Artesian Basin is much larger ), with a total recharge rate of about 166 km³ / year from precipitation.

The Moree Artesian Aquatics Centre ( MAAC ), first established in 1896, attracts visitors from around Australia and overseas to " take the waters ", an activity particularly popular with immigrants from eastern and southern Europe and eastern Asia.

As the Great Artesian Basin underlies parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, which each operate under different legislative frameworks, policies and resource management approaches, a coordinated " whole-of-Basin " approach to the management of this important natural resource is required.

* A New Understanding of the Groundwater Resources of the Great Artesian Basin, L. A. Endersbee, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

* Bas Saharan Basin, an Artesian aquifer system which covers most of the Algerian and Tunisian Sahara and extends to Morocco and Libya

Children under 14 may fish in the Artesian Lake which has been stocked with catfish.

The fort has its own Artesian well ( aquifer ) which provided fresh water.

1913 map shows layout of completed St Andrew's Ground. Artesian springs, which kept the land flooded, had to be drained and blocked off with tons of rubble before soil could be laid on top.