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Groundwater appears in basins throughout the United States. It serves half of the nation’s population with drinking water and provides significant amounts of the water used for irrigation, livestock, and industry. In addition to being an important source of water supply, groundwater basins are also sources of storage capacity In fact, underground storage has greater capacity than surface storage and is more desirable in several respects. The value of groundwater basins as sources of water supply and storage has been increasing for several reasons: (1) increasing water use; (2) greater past development of surface water supplies; (3) increasing concerns about water quality; (4) needs for protection of instream flows of surface streams; an