In fact, in New Jersey and throughout the United States, ground water is the primary source of drinking water for about half of the population.
Ground water is essential to our everyday lives.
We obtain most of this water from individual domestic wells or public water supplies which tap into aquifers porous rock formations capable of holding and transporting ground water. Depending on the location, aquifers containing ground water can either be a few feet below the surface to several hundred feet underground. Under normal conditions, aquifers are replenished naturally by rainfall that soaks into the Earth and seeps down to the water table, the top layer of ground water. Some ground water is untouched for years, even centuries, before it is used. Contrary to popular belief, ground water is NOT a flowing underground stream or lake.