Editing Resource depletion (section)

=== Mitigation ===
Currently, societies respond to water-resource depletion by shifting management objectives from location and developing new supplies to augmenting conserving and reallocation of existing supplies.<ref name=":8" /> There are two different perspectives to groundwater depletion, the first is that depletion is considered literally and simply as a reduction in the volume of water in the saturated zone, regardless of water quality considerations.<ref name=":8" /> A second perspective views depletion as a reduction in the usable volume of fresh groundwater in storage.<ref name=":8" />

Augmenting supplies can mean improving water quality or increasing water quantity. Depletion due to quality considerations can be overcome by treatment, whereas large volume metric depletion can only be alleviated by decreasing discharge or increasing recharge.<ref name=":8" /> Artificial recharge of storm flow and treated municipal wastewater, has successfully reversed groundwater declines.<ref name=":8" /> In the future improved infiltration and recharge technologies will be more widely used to maximize the capture of runoff and treated wastewater.