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Disclaimer The questions posted on the site are solely user generated, Doubtnut has no ownership or control over the nature and content of those questions. In the diagram, you can see how the ground below the water table is saturated with water the saturated zone. Aquifers are replenished by the seepage of precipitation that falls on the land, but there are many geologic, meteorologic, topographic, and human factors that determine the extent and rate to which aquifers are refilled with water.
Rocks have different porosity and permeability characteristics, which means that water does not move around the same way in all rocks. Thus, the characteristics of groundwater recharge vary all over the world. I hope you appreciate my spending an hour in the blazing sun to dig this hole at the beach. It is a great way to illustrate the concept of how at a certain depth the ground, if it is permeable enough to allow water to move through it, is saturated with water. The top of the pool of water in this hole is the water table.
The breaking waves of the ocean are just to the right of this hole, and the water level in the hole is the same as the level of the ocean. Of course, the water level here changes by the minute due to the movement of the tides, and as the tide goes up and down, the water level in the hole moves, too.
Just as with this hole, the level of the water table is affected by other environmental conditions. In a way, this hole is like a dug well used to access groundwater, probably saline in this case. But, if this was freshwater, people could grab a bucket an supply themselves with the water they need to live their daily lives.
You know that at the beach if you took a bucket and tried to empty this hole, it would refill immediately because the sand is so permeable that water flows easily through it, meaning our "well" is very "high-yielding" too bad the water is saline. To access freshwater, people have to drill wells deep enough to tap into an aquifer. The well might have to be dozens or thousands of feet deep. But the concept is the same as our well at the beach—access the water in the saturated zone where the voids in the rock are full of water.
In an aquifer, the soil and rock is saturated with water. If the aquifer is shallow enough and permeable enough to allow water to move through it at a rapid-enough rate, then people can drill wells into it and withdraw water. The level of the water table can naturally change over time due to changes in weather cycles and precipitation patterns, streamflow and geologic changes, and even human-induced changes, such as the increase in impervious surfaces , such as roads and paved areas, on the landscape.
The pumping of wells can have a great deal of influence on water levels below ground, especially in the vicinity of the well, as this diagram shows.
Depending on geologic and hydrologic conditions of the aquifer, the impact on the level of the water table can be short-lived or last for decades, and the water level can fall a small amount or many hundreds of feet. Excessive pumping can lower the water table so much that the wells no longer supply water—they can "go dry.
As these charts show, even though the amount of water locked up in groundwater is a small percentage of all of Earth's water, it represents a large percentage of total freshwater on Earth.
The pie chart shows that about 1. As the bar chart shows, about 5,, cubic miles mi 3 , or 23,, cubic kilometers km 3 , of groundwater exist on Earth. About 54 percent is saline, with the remaining 2,, mi 3 10,, km 3 , about 46 percent, being freshwater. Water in aquifers below the oceans is generally saline, while the water below the land surfaces where freshwater, which fell as precipitation, infiltrates into the ground is generally freshwater. There is a stable transition zone that separates saline water and freshwater below ground.
It is fortunate for us that the relatively shallow aquifers that people tap with wells contain freshwater, since if we tried to irrigate corn fields with saline water I suspect the stalks would refuse to grow. Source: Gleick, P. In Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, ed. Do you think you know about groundwater? Quiz icon made by mynamepong from www.
Earth's water is always in movement, and the natural water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Water is always changing states between liquid, vapor, and ice, with these processes happening in the blink of an eye and over millions of years. The air is full of water, even if you can't see it. Beyond the immediate, obvious advantages of people being hydrated and healthier, access to water, sanitation and hygiene — known collectively as WASH — has profound wider socio-economic impacts, particularly for women and girls.
Current situation Today, 2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 3. The impact on child mortality rates is devastating with more than children under five who die every day from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or unsafe drinking water. Water A person without access to improved drinking water — for example from a protected borehole well or municipal piped supply for instance — is forced to rely on sources such as surface water, unprotected and possibly contaminated wells, or vendors selling water of unverifiable provenance and quality.
Sanitation Without improved sanitation — a facility that safely separates human waste from human contact — people have no choice but to use inadequate communal latrines or to practise open defecation. For women and girls, finding a place to go to the toilet outside, often having to wait until the cover of darkness, can leave them vulnerable to abuse and sexual assault.
Hygiene In some parts of the world there is little or no awareness of good hygiene practices and their role in reducing the spread of disease. However, it is often the case that even when people do have knowledge of good hygiene behaviour, they lack the soap, safe water and washing facilities they need to make positive changes to protect themselves and their community.
Drinking water in a village in Nepal. WASH and livelihoods The disease and time burden associated with lack of access to WASH prevents many adults from earning a living or fulfilling their potential in the professional arena.
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