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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
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Fields of Study > hydrology > drawdown
Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment > hydrology > drawdown
Preferred Term:

drawdown

Definition:
In hydrologic terms, the lowering of the surface elevation of a body of water, the water surface of a well, the water table, or the piezometric surface adjacent to the well, resulting from the withdrawl of water therefrom.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
hydrology
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/205850
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RDF/XMLCreated 2013-09-19, last modified 2013-12-06