完全保护地下饮用水源的理想目标在经济上和物理上可能都不可行。该国相对较少的饮用水井受到污染，最严重的污染可以通过成熟的技术加以控制，如在泥浆墙后蓄积污染羽流，或排放和泵送污染羽流。从长远来看，应该让公众意识到使用某些最终可能渗入饮用水含水层的普通家庭、工业和农业产品的后果。包括数字。

The ideal goal of complete protection of underground drinking water sources is probably economically and physically infeasible. Relatively few of the nation's drinking water wells have been contaminated, and the most serious instances of contamination can be controlled with proven techniques such as impounding plumes of contamination behind slurry walls or draining and pumping the plume. In the long term, the public should be made aware of the consequences of using certain common household, industrial, and agricultural products that can ultimately seep into drinking water aquifers. Includes figures.