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Groundwater Contamination

By Dennis Kaan, Wyoming Water Resources Center

And Joe Hiller, Department of Range Management

June 1993

Groundwater supplies more than 54 percent of Wyoming’s population with domestic water, and more than 90 percent of rural domestic water comes from groundwater. Because groundwater is such an important resource to the state, it needs to be protected from contamination that could have detrimental effects on humans and the environment. Once groundwater is contaminated, cleaning it up is a very difficult and expensive process.

Groundwater Contamination discusses how groundwater moves, the causes of groundwater contamination, how to detect contamination, and how to protect groundwater quality.

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