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  • March 2022

World Water Day 2022 - Groundwater: The Liver of our Rivers

Mar 22, 2022 /

The theme of this year’s World Water Day is “making the invisible visible” with a special emphasis on the importance of groundwater. Groundwater is quantitatively the most important freshwater resource as there is 100 times more groundwater than surface water. In fact, it is where we source most of our fresh drinking water.

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