Groundwater

🕑 Reading time: 1 minute Groundwater is an important natural resource. The precipitation infiltrates into the ground and travels down until it reaches the impervious stratum where it is stored as groundwater. It is stored in the pores present in the geological formations such as soil, rock, sand, etc. Types of Geological Formations of Groundwater […]

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Scientists report that it could take 100 years for the world's groundwater supplies to respond to climate change, potentially leaving populations without water.

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World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. This year’s theme ‘groundwater’, draws attention to the hidden water resource that has always been critically important but not fully recognized in sustainable development policymaking. Under the title ‘Groundwater - Making the invisible visible’, this year’s campaign will explain groundwater’s vital role in water and sanitation systems, agriculture, industry, ecosystems and climate change…

A huge amount of water exists in the ground below your feet, and people all over the world make great use of it. But it is only found in usable quantities in certain places underground — aquifers. Read on to understand the concepts of aquifers and how water exists in the ground.

Scientists have warned that future generations could have to face the impact of climate change on groundwater as it could take 100 years for it to be felt in many parts of the world.

Invisible, underground pools of water may be all that’s left when other sources dry up.

Too much groundwater use could push over half of pumped watersheds past an ecological tipping point by 2050, compromising aquatic ecosystems worldwide.

Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock. It is stored in and moves slowly through geologic formations