الآثار البيئية الناجمة عن سحب المياه الجوفية بمشروع النهر الصناعي الليبي " مشكلة هبوط سطح الأرض بحقل آبار تازربو "

     Ground surface subsidence is one of the Environmental problems caused by the withdrawal of groundwater. The drawdown of water levels because of continuous pumping from underground reservoirs in the well field, which in turn has led to environmental problems in some areas, such as those occurred in Tazirbo Well-Field area a year 2006. 

The lowered water pressure in the sandstone basin and causes slow drainage of water from the clay and silt beds. The reduced water pressure is a loss of support for the clay and silt beds. Because these beds are compressible, they compact (become thinner), and the effects are seen as a lowering of the land surface. The lowering of land surface elevation from this process is permanent. For example, if lowered ground-water levels caused land subsidence, recharging the aquifer until ground water returned to the original levels would not result in an appreciable recovery of the land-surface elevation.