Water Resources
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What is the 0.65% of our water?
groundwater, lakes, rivers, etc.
How many percent of water is in the ocean?
97%
How many percent of water are in glaciers?
2.15%
includes organic, mic-organisms, nutrients, suspended solids and sediments, inorganic pollutants, thermal pollution and radioactive pollutants
Water Pollutants
spaces filled with water
Zone of Saturation
Top of groundwater zone
water table
falls in dry weather, or when we remove groundwater faster than natura can replenish it, and it rises in wet weather
water table
underground caverns and porous layers of sand, gravel, or bedrock through which groundwater flows
Aquifers
freshwater from precipitation and snowmelt that flows across the earth’s land surface into rivers, lakes, estuaries, and the ocean
Surface Water
precipitation that does not infiltrate the ground or return to the atmosphere by evaporation
surface runoff
land from which surface water drains into a particular river, lake, or other body of water
watershed or drainage basin