In article , Janet Tweedy
wrote:

In article , Stan The Man
writes

If the Daily Telegraph is correct, there will be no drought - because
drought is caused not by lack of summer rainfall (most of which
evaporates or is immediately transpired) but by lack of winter
rainfall. The aquifers rely almost exclusively on winter rainfall to
provide our year-round water needs.


What annoys me with the use of aquifers is that, by banning garden
watering in the areas that are used to catch the rain to fill the
aquifers, (IYSWIM) surely there will be a dearth of water in perhaps
several years time when no ground water has been allowed to percolate
down through the sub soil?
Or is that not the case?

Not the case - garden watering takes place at a time of year when
rainfall is of little or no benefit to the underground supplies.
Whether you water or not, summer rainfall has no chance of percolating
down to the aquifers.