Multiple Choice
The well shown in this figure has become "contaminated" with naturally occurring salt water,drawn toward it because too much water was pumped from it for too long.What would be an easy way to restore the aquifer,that is,to push the saline groundwater back toward the ocean? 
A) Cover the near-shore sea bottom with heavy plastic and concrete to prevent more seawater from entering the aquifer.
B) Install a line of wells between your "contaminated" well and the coast, and place desalination equipment in each one, to remove salinity from the aquifer.
C) Convert your "contaminated" well into an injection well and begin to pump freshwater into the aquifer through it.
D) Increase the amount of rainfall that occurs just inland from your "contaminated" well.
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