Some effects of preciptiation on ground water in Wisconsin

The importance of our water supplies has become increasingly apparent to most of us in recent years. The importance of water was forcefully dramatized by the water shortage in New York City in 1950. In nearly every State in the Union, one or more communities now has or has had a water problem whose effect on the citizens has been no less to them as was the one in New York City to New Yorkers. The increasing numbers of these problems have led to widespread speculation as to the adequacy of the Nation' s water supplies.