Ground-Water Topics

• What is ground water
• Groundwater flow diagrams
• Ground-water use
• Importance of ground water
• Trends in ground-water use
• Ground-water quality
• Pesticides in ground water
• Aquifers
• Water wells
• What is a flowing (artesian) well?
• Sinkholes
• Land subsidence

A USGS Fact Sheet about ground water

Earth's water Water Science home page USGS Water Resources The URL for this page is http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearthgw.html Comments? Contact Howard Perlman Last Modified: Jun 13, 2003