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Define groundwater and explain how it relates to the terms water table, aquifer, and confined aquifer.​


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Groundwater is water that occupies the zone of saturation within the ground. The water table is the upper limit of the groundwater. An aquifer is a body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater. Groundwater enters an aquifer as precipitation seeps through the soil. It can move through the aquifer and resurface through springs and wells. Groundwater separated from atmospheric pressure by relatively impermeable material is termed confined groundwater. When such zones are penetrated by wells, the water rises above the point at which it was first found because a confined aquifer is under pressure exceeding that of atmospheric pressure.