GW America Abbreviation

Groundwater

The water contained beneath thesurface in soils and rock. ORWater contained in the soil or rocks below the water table. Water table if lowered too much, the ground may settle disastrously. The supply of fresh water found beneath the surface of the Earth that often supplies wells and springs. Water derived from rain and melting snow that percolates downward from the surface and collects in the open pore spaces between soil particles or in cracks and fissures in bedrock.