Mostly towns sink wells for drinking water. If they draw off too much water for precipitation, etc. to refill then they cause the water table to fall and the wells will be drilled deeper and the water table will fall more.
the pavement keeps the water from seeping down into the watertable
Over irrigation of growing crops could lower the water table in an area - especially in a desert environment.
They destroy towns and kill people
the knights of the round table and English towns
If you meant to ask "How DO many towns......", by pumping water into elevated tanks.
Water, table
a water table
It came into the towns on Roman "aqueducts".
the zone of aeration
Establishing towns near water allowed for irrigation of crops.
pour it out from the table./
Since the water table is just a level of ground that holds water, much of the content of the water table is water. When the water is gone, the water table shrinks, and the land moves downwards.