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Deep Seated Water (DSW) is high-quality groundwater, typically sourced from deeper aquifers that are located below shallow aquifers. Deep aquifers are supplied from local catchment basins and subsurface inflows across basin boundaries.

These deep aquifers can be viewed as networks of permeable geological formations as well as fracture-based conduits (so-called fracture-enhanced secondary permeability). These formations and conduits are hypothesized to be integrated and make up vast  watersheds or drainage basins that collect and carry groundwater from high elevations over long distances through these networks.  Additionally, these networks may be augmented by inflow from hydrothermal sources from magmatic bodies. Water may be travelling through these networks for centuries.

Groundwater systems are dynamic systems in a constant state of flux. Groundwater scientists and managers want to make informed decisions with regards to the water resources within a basin.  One commonly used measurement method is called the groundwater budget.  The groundwater budget of a defined area (basin) is the result of an analysis of that groundwater basin’s water inflows and outflows to determine the change in groundwater storage in that basin. For this, many different inflow and outflow sources are identified, assessed, and monitored.