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    Water is essential for life. Most water on Earth is salt water found in oceans, while fresh water comes from rivers, lakes, ice, and underground aquifers. The water cycle describes how water is continually circulated between the Earth's surface and atmosphere through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Fresh water is a limited resource, with only 1% of the Earth's water available for human use.

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    Water Resources (Earth Science)

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    Water is essential for life. Most water on Earth is salt water found in oceans, while fresh water comes from rivers, lakes, ice, and underground aquifers. The water cycle describes how water is continually circulated between the Earth's surface and atmosphere through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Fresh water is a limited resource, with only 1% of the Earth's water available for human use.

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    Water is essential for life. Most water on Earth is salt water found in oceans, while fresh water comes from rivers, lakes, ice, and underground aquifers. The water cycle describes how water is continually circulated between the Earth's surface and atmosphere through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Fresh water is a limited resource, with only 1% of the Earth's water available for human use.

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    Water Resources

    Water
    is essential to life on earth . Humans can live for more than one month
    without food, but we can live for only a few days without water.

     Two kinds of water found on Earth:


     Fresh water, the water that people can drink, contains little salt.
     Salt water, the water in oceans, contains a higher concentration of
    dissolved salts.

     Most human uses for water , such as drinking and agriculture , require fresh
    water.
    The hydrological cycle
    Ignoring such long-term effects as the
    changes in atmospheric storage conditions,
    run-off filling the ocean basins etc., hydro-
    logical
    cycle is
    merely
    the re-
    cycling
    of water
    between
    land and
    oceans.

    http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/smry.rxml
    The Water Cycle
     Water Is a renewable resource because it is circulated in the water cycle.

     In the water cycle, water molecules travel between the Earth’s surface and
    the atmosphere. Water evaporates at the Earth’s surface. Vapor rises into the
    air. As the vapor rises, it condenses to form clouds. Eventually the water in
    clouds fall back to the Earth.

     The oceans are important because almost all of the Earth’s water is in the
    ocean.
    Global Water Distribution

    Most
    of the Land
    (29%)
    Earth
    is Oceans
    covered (71%)
    by water
    “...water, water, every where
    nor any drop to drink!”
    Global Water Distribution
     Although 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, nearly
    97% of Earth’s water is salt water in oceans, seas.

     3% of fresh water on Earth, 77% is frozen in glaciers and polar


    icecaps.

     About 1% of the water on Earth is liquid fresh water that humans


    can use.

     The fresh water we use comes mainly from lakes and rivers and
    from a relatively narrow zone beneath the Earth’s surface.
    Surface Water
    Surface water is
    all the bodies of
    fresh water, salt
    water , ice, and
    snow, that are
    found above the
    ground.
    River System

     A river system is a flowing


    network of rivers and
    streams draining a river
    basin.

     The Amazon River system


    is the largest river system
    in the world as it drains an
    area of land that is nearly
    the size of Europe.
    Watersheds
    A watershed is the area
    of land that is drained
    by a water system.

    Rapidly melting snow


    as well spring and
    summer rains can
    dramatically increase
    the amount of water in
    a watershed.
    Groundwater
    Is the water
    that is
    beneath the
    Earth’s
    surface.
    Aquifers
     An aquifer is a body of
    rocks or sediment that
    stores groundwater and
    allows the flow of
    groundwater.

     The water table forms the


    upper boundary of an
    aquifer, and most aquifers
    consists of materials such
    as rock, sand, and gravel
    that have a lot of spaces
    where water can
    accumulate.

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