How do agricultural activities causes a depletion of water table?

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Agriculture mainly depends on rainfall. Rainfall is variant and unpredictable. The increase in population demands agriculture to produce more food. Irrigation, an important part in agriculture, requires rainfall. When there is scarcity of rainfall, farmers rely on groundwater resources to meet their needs of irrigation. Thus, excess groundwater is used in irrigation, which causes a depletion in the water table.

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