Groundwater
Anyone who wants to learn about the water they drink and uses every day, ways to help, and other resources should find this website useful.
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Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock become completely saturated with water is called the water table. Groundwater is recharged from, and eventually flows to, the surface naturally. Groundwater is also often withdrawn for agricultural, municipal and industrial use by constructing and operating extraction wells.
Groundwater makes up about twenty percent of the world's fresh water supply, which is about 0.61% of the entire world's water, including oceans and permanent ice. This makes it an important resource which can act as a natural storage that can buffer against shortages of surface water, as in during times of drought.
