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Article: Planners: Water shortages ahead for deep aquifers
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
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- October 22, 2009
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AURORA - With deep aquifer water supplies dropping, some suburban cities - including Aurora - could start feeling the pinch as soon as 2015, Chicago-area planners say.
Within the next 15 years, getting water from those aquifers could start costing cities more money, said Josh Ellis, who studies water issues for the Chicago-based Metropolitan Planning Council. He cited a report earlier this year from the Illinois State Water Survey that he said showed "the amount of water declining at a very rapid rate" in the deep aquifers used by both Aurora and Joliet. Both cities, among the fastest-growing in the United States in recent years, rely heavily on two deep aquifers that stretch underground ...