The part that is unconfined is the smaller recharge area. The Recharge Zone The Edwards aquifer is often referred to as a fault-zone aquifer because recharge in the recharge zone occurs because the limestone is heavily faulted and fractured as it follows the Balcones Fault Line.he Edwards is divided into three parts: the contributing zone, the recharge zone and the artesian zone. The aquifer is mostly confined, the contributing zone, which is the largest part,is confined below by a rock called Glen Rose Limestone and above by mostly impermeable Del Rio Clay.
Enteric diseases are infections that can be caused by viruses or bacteria entering the body through the intestinal system.
Medical Definition of INFECTIOUS DISEASE. : a disease caused by the entrance into the body of organisms (as bacteria, protozoans, fungi, or viruses) which grow and multiply thereâsee communicable disease, contagious disease.