Recent Examples of scrunchie from the Web. Every scrunchie, every record store world-music listening station, every manual car window, and every pay phone serves as a reminder that even the very recent past is a foreign country.
Groundwater is tapped through wells placed in water-bearing soils and rocks beneath the surface of the earth. Of the total 341 billion gallons of fresh water the United States withdraws each day, groundwater is estimated to be 79.6 billion gallons, or 23 percent.
The United States Geological Survey estimates that (as of 2005, the most recent year for which data is available) we withdraw 410 billion gallons of water a day, including both fresh and saline water. Most (80%) of these withdrawals go to thermoelectric power plants (for cooling) and agriculture (for watering crops).