This World Water Day, we’re being asked to make the invisible, visible.
Groundwater is invisible, but in Australia, it makes up approximately 17 per cent of accessible water resources and accounts for over 30 per cent of our nation’s total water consumption. In fact, approximately 2 per cent of the Earth’s water occurs as groundwater, compared to just 0.1 per cent as river and lakes and 94 per cent as oceans. As our planet starts to feel the effects of climate change, groundwater is becoming more important than ever.
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