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groundwater extraction

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The process, deliberate or inadvertent, of extracting ground water from a source at a rate so in excess of the replenishment that the ground water level declines persistently, threatening exhaustion of the supply or at least a decline of pumping levels to uneconomic depths. (Source: BJGEO)

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http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/aliss_scripts/concept/3781

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