Groundwater Dictionary

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1997

1998

National Water Act

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30 September

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Abiotic

	Aquatic Ecosystems
	Ecoregions

According

National Water Act

Act No

	Aquatic Ecosystems
	Bank Storage
	Baseflow
	Basic Water Supply
	Borehole
	Catchment
	Estuary
	Pollution
	Pristine
	Reserve
	Water Management Area (WMA)
	Water Resource
	Wetland

Act No 108

Aeration

Alluvial Aquifer

And/or

	Lateral Collector
	Reserve
	Unconfined Aquifer

Anisotropic

	Anisotropy
	Isotropy

Aquatic Ecosystems

Aquiclude

	Aquiclude
	Confined Aquifer

Aquicludes

	Aquiclude
	Sill

Aquifer Testing

Aquitards

	Aquitard
	Sill

Artesian Borehole

Available Drawdown

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B

	Dug Well
	Pollution
	Reserve
	Resource

Baseflow

	Baseflow
	Baseflow Index (BFI)
	Ephemeral Stream
	Runoff

Basic Human Needs

Bieodegradation

Borehole Testing

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C

	Dug Well
	Resource

Called

Capillary Fringe

Changes/fluctuations

Characteristics

	Groundwater Resource Unit
	Lithology
	Resource
	Surface Water
	Vulnerability

Colour

Components Of Flow Regime

Compressibility

Cone

Confined Aquifer

Conjunctive Use

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Demineralisation

Denitrification

Depression

Detached Stream

Dewatering

urban/agricultural

Different Formations

Different lithologies

Disconnected Stream

Discontinuities

Driscoll

	Aquifer Testing
	Catchment
	Confined Aquifer
	Contamination
	Darcy's Law

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Earth???s

	Attenuation
	Dyke

Earth's

	Fault
	Perched Aquifer

Ecosystems/plains

Effluent Stream

Electrodialysis

Energy-intensive

Ephemeral River

Equal

Evapotranspiration

	Evapotranspiration
	Hydrology

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Formal definition/Description

	Hydrological Year
	Safe Yield
	Water Resource

Forms

Fractured Aquifer

Fractured/fissured

Freeze

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Gaining

Geohydrological

	Groundwater Resource Unit
	Reserve

Geohydrological characteristics

	Formation
	Lithology

Groundwater

	Alluvial Aquifer
	Aquifer Testing
	Catchment
	Confined Aquifer
	Contamination
	Darcy's Law
	Groundwater
	Infiltration

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Groundwater Resource

Groundwater Resource Unit

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H

	Alluvial Aquifer
	pH

Harvest Potential

Hydraulic Conductivity

Hydraulic Gradient

Hydrogeology

	Geohydrology
	Hydrogeology

Hydrological Cycle

Hydrological Year

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I.e

	Infiltration
	Quaternary Catchment

Including

Influent Stream

Interacting

Interdependency

Interflow

	Baseflow
	Interflow

Intermittent Stream

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Johnston Filtration Systems Inc

	Aquifer Testing
	Catchment
	Confined Aquifer
	Contamination
	Darcy's Law

Joints/fissures

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Lateral collector

Layer

Lithic characteristics

Localised

	Reserve
	Spring

Losing

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M

	Capillary Fringe
	Darcy's Law
	Dug Well
	Sinkhole

M/d

	Hydraulic Conductivity (K)
	Permeability (k)

Making

pharmaceuticals

Measuring

Meteorologically

Methemoglobinemia

Mg/l

	Freshwater
	Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)

Minister

Water and Sanitation

Minnesota

	Aquifer Testing
	Catchment
	Confined Aquifer
	Contamination
	Darcy's Law

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National Water Act

	Aquatic Ecosystems
	Bank Storage
	Baseflow
	Basic Water Supply
	Borehole
	Estuary
	Groundwater Resource Unit
	Pollution
	Reserve
	Water Management Area (WMA)
	Water Resource
	Wetland

Non-gravitational

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October

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Parts

Perched Aquifers

Perched Groundwater

Pharmaceuticals

Piezometric

	Artesian Borehole
	Available Drawdown
	Drawdown
	Effluent Stream
	Groundwater

Pipe/channel/trench

Porosity

Potentiometric

	Artesian Borehole
	Cone of Depression
	Pontentiometric Surface

Potentiometric Surface

	Piezometric Surface
	Pontentiometric Surface

Preferential Flow

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	Disconnected Stream
	Effluent Stream
	Influent Stream

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Quaternary Catchment

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Representing

Reserve

	Baseflow Index (BFI)
	Basic Water Supply
	Catchment
	Groundwater Resource Unit
	Reserve
	Significant Water Resource

Resource Quality Objectives

Rest Water Level

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Saline Intrusion

Saltwater Intrusion

Saturation

See geohydrology

See Hydrological Cycle

See potentiometric

Semi Confined Aquifer

Significant Water Resources

Source National Water Act

South Africa

	Quaternary Catchment
	Sinkhole

South Africa 1990

Surface Water Resources

Speaking

St Paul

	Aquifer Testing
	Catchment
	Confined Aquifer
	Contamination
	Darcy's Law

Static Water Level

Storage Coefficient

Storativity

	Storage Coefficient (S)
	Storativity (S)

Stream/river

	Effluent Stream
	Influent Stream

Streambed

	Disconnected Stream
	Effluent Stream
	Influent Stream

Subsurface Water

Surface Water Resources

South Africa 1990

Sustainable Yield

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TDS

Total Dissolved Solids

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Unconfined Aquifer

Understanding

characteristics

Unsaturated Zone

Urban/agricultural

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Vadose

	Capillary Fringe
	Subsurface Water
	Unsaturated Zone

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Water and Sanitation

Water Management Area

Water Management Area WMA

Water Services Act

Wells ISBN 0-9616456-0-1

	Aquifer Testing
	Catchment
	Confined Aquifer
	Contamination
	Darcy's Law

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Zone