Studying on the artificial adjustment of groundwater storage from the international and internal data,this paper expounds the difference and relationship between groundwater reservoir,groundwater storage,artificial recharge and adjustment of groundwater in conception,describes the situation and the trend of the international study on the artificial adjustment of groundwater reservoir,and reviews development and the problems of the internal study on the groundwater reservoir.This also offers the principle and necessary condition for the artificial adjustment of groundwa- ter storage and put forwards a research topic for adjustment of groundwater storage according to the water resources crisis in the northern part of China.