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| courtesy of Water Education Foundation |
Aquifers are important sources of fresh water. Two types of aquifers - confined and unconfined- are good tunnels for groundwater.
Basin yield is the amount of water that can be extracted from the basin without having any detrimental effects on both the channel and the water.
Artificial recharge on the other hand, is a human design devising the augmentation of groundwater faster than normal recharge.
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Groundwater contamination comes from different sources.
Natural contaminants are from the dissolving of the aquifer's surrounding rocks as water flows through it.
Anthropogenic contamination is man-made and basically is composed of those pollutants to water we are all aware of.
