More than half the world’s people live in countries where water tables are falling.
India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day.
India is criss-crossed with the most elegant wells that tap into the shallow aquifer.
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
Depending on which of the many hydrogeological zones of India you tap into, the water can either be easy to reach or incredibly difficult to suck out.
The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water is much better to drink than surface water because it filters out the bacteria that can cause all sorts of problems.
There should be a water table on Mars.
