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[[Image:RechargePit.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Recharge pit constructed for recharge of surface runoff. Rajasthan, India. Photo: [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001438/143819e.pdf ''Strategies for Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) in semi-arid areas.''] UNESCO.]]
'''Wells, shafts, and/or boreholes''' are holes (often human-made) in the ground at various depths used for the purposes of storing water for later use.
Large diameter wells and smaller diameter boreholes can be used to directly recharge or dilute shallow aquifers where low permeability strata (rock) overlies the aquifers and where other infiltration methods are not effective. The important thing is that water of high enough water quality is used for this purpose. Although this method of recharge is practised with deep and high-yielding boreholes, this technique mainly describes recharge at the family level in areas where hand dug wells run dry at the end of the dry season or where groundwater is saline.
* [http://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/experiments-community-wells Experiments with 'community wells'] Mobilized farmers in Dhule, Maharashtra, show how communities can use groundwater as a common resource in an organised and collective manner.
* [http://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/battling-water-scarcity-borewell-recharge Battling water scarcity with borewell recharge]
* [http://www.trustreuters.orgcom/alertnetarticle/news2011/namibian-capital10/26/us-needsnamibia-water-banks-for-dry-times idUSTRE79P41B20111026 Namibian capital needs "water banks" for dry times]. Reuters. 26 Oct 2011.
* [http://www.ewisa.co.za/literature/files/087.pdf Planning Water Resource Management: The Case for Managing Aquifer Recharge], by E.C. Murray and G. Tredoux.
* [http://www.indiawaterportal.org/nodearticles/6270 Recharge Wellaugmenting-groundwater-basics-how-construct-recharge-well Augmenting groundwater: Cost and CautionThe basics on how to construct a recharge well]. India Water Portal. Includes materials and costs.
* Commercial product: [http://www.kentainers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Permawell.pdf PERMAWELL]. Made by AquaSanTec.