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Czech villagers rail against giant Polish coal mine
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02/07/2021 - 07:36 The Polish power plant at Turow and open-cast coal mine beside it are blamed for falling water levels in nearby villages in the Czech Republic Michal Cizek AFP 3 min
Chrastava (Czech Republic) (AFP)
For the past 18 years, Czech physics teacher Karel Rehak has seen the water level in his well drop steadily, a phenomenon he attributes to a nearby sprawling Polish brown-coal mine.
The open-cast Turow lignite mine spans 28 square kilometres (11 square miles) and supplies a power station that accounts for some seven percent of Poland s electricity consumption.
Located in the middle of Europe where the borders of Poland, Czech Republic and Germany intersect, the mine is now at the centre of a bitter dispute between Prague and Warsaw.
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IMAGE: Coastal groundwater discharge can sometimes be seen at low tide as rivulets flowing into the ocean, as on this beach on Oahu. A global assessment found groundwater discharge plays a. view more
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An invisible flow of groundwater seeps into the ocean along coastlines all over the world. Scientists have tended to disregard its contributions to ocean chemistry, focusing on the far greater volumes of water and dissolved material entering the sea from rivers and streams, but a new study finds groundwater discharge plays a more significant role than had been thought.
The new findings, published January 8 in