Synonyms for water table
wa·ter ta·ble

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1. water tablenoun

   Synonyms:
   drainage basin, phreatic surface

2. water tablenoun

   The level, underground, below which the ground is saturated with water

   Synonyms:
   phreatic surface, drainage basin

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. water table, water level, groundwater levelnoun

   underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water

   "spring rains had raised the water table"

   Synonyms:
   water level, groundwater level, waterline, water line

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1. Bill Weir:

   It was written after one of the wettest years ever, so all this water was over-allocated to the lower basin states, as a result, there has been this tension with New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah -- the upper basin states where all that snowpack has been diminishing. That was the water table for the Western United States, and now it's gone.

2. Ryan Zinke:

   We meet in the office, we go out to dinner, we talk about the background of the park. What are the neighbors like, what was the vision of the park, where the boundaries are, where the water table is because the water table has changed over time. What the railroad is. So they have the background.

3. Craig Colten:

   There are very few basements in Louisiana, very few people live below, or even have a part of their house below the land surface, architecture and the local high water table -- which makes people not want to build basements and the fact that simply most houses are elevated, even with the same kind of rapid flooding that happened in New York Citys, if that had occurred in Louisiana, you wouldn't have seen the fatalities.