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I don't understand. Surely if you've got a limited amount of water in the lake, drawing that water from a shallow well reduces the available water by the same amount as it would from the lake itself?
I think this may be the way the explanation comes across. Historically, there were many lakes, but now the lakes don't exist because there's a large city there instead. So, to replicate the behaviour of the lakes, you need to get the water to traverse rock to remove some impurities and then settle in aquifers.