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Australian Water Information Dictionary

watertable

The groundwater surface in an unconfined aquifer or confining bed at which the pore pressure is atmospheric. It can be measured by installing shallow wells extending a few meters into the saturated zone and then measuring the water level in those wells.

This definition applies to:

• Glossary for Water status: Australian Water Resources Assessment 2010
• Glossary for Water data: National Atlas of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

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