What is the groundwater table, and what defines its position?

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What is the groundwater table, and what defines its position?

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Groundwater table is the upper level of an underground surface where the soil or rocks are saturated permanently with water. 

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The water table segregates the groundwater zone underneath it from the capillary fringe, or aeration zone above it. 

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