Excerpt from Groundwater Geology in Western Illinois, South Part: A Preliminary Geologic Report Despite the vast amount of water available from the Mississippi and Illi nois rivers, withdrawal of water from these sources for use by cities, farms, and industries in western Illinois has been relatively small. Most of the water supplies utilized directly or indirectly by man in the area comes from the great reservoir of water that is stored in the ground. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.