Here are two defintions of "water table":
"Water table \Water table\ (Hydraulic Engin.)
The upper limit of the portion of the ground wholly saturated
with water. The water table may be within a few inches of the surface or many feet below it.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]
water table
n : underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water: "spring rains had raised the water table" [syn: {water level}, {groundwater level}]"
So, water tables are underground water table tops. Right? And what, then, would you call water that has drenched the land, say, several inches from surface downward? It sounds like those spring rains affect the water table top, but they also affect the surface of the land itself, at least temporarily. In other words, what do you call the depth of saturation of the ground level water?
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