underground aquifer(s) by a highly porous soil or rock
layer. Water entering a recharge area may travel for miles
underground.
Introduction of surface water into an underground aquifer through recharge wells.
Definition source
United Nations. Glossary of environment statistics.
SOIL-AQUIFER TREATMENT: The process of water being purified by percolating through soil and into an underground aquifer.
STORAGE: Water held in a reservoir for later use.
SURFACE WATER: Water located on the Earth's surface.
refers to water entering an underground aquifer through faults, fractures, or direct absorption.
recharge zone ...
recharge area. Generally, an area that is connected with the underground aquifer(s) by a highly porous soil or rock layer. Water entering a recharge area may travel for miles underground.
Water condenses into clouds and then falls back to earth as rain or snow (precipitation). Some precipitation soaks into the ground (percolation) to replenish groundwater supplies in underground aquifers.
Even though rains continuously replenish the clean water supply, we have polluted the rivers, lakes and streams making them unsuitable for drinking or agriculture. Further, we are rapidly draining the underground aquifers which took eons to fill.
 See also: Environment, Waste, Air, Pollution, Water
  
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