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Water Above & Below Ground

Water Below The Ground
= = There is water underground everywhere. Water in under mountains, fields, desserts and anywhere. Water is the most important resource! Most of the time when rain falls onto the land it sinks into the ground. The rain will sink into the ground and sink until it hits a layer of thick rock. This layer of rock acts as a barrier. The layer of rock is something like granite. Once the water hits the layer of rock is wont go into the ground any further, so instead it moves back up to the surface. This would be called groundwater. On its way to the top is fills the pours of the soil with water. The water will fill the pours until they are full, after they are full the water will form a type of water system. This water system acts as a river or stream. The “river” or “stream” is underground, but instead of being connected by channels its connected by the pours, but it flows like a river or stream. That would be called an aquifer. The aquifer doesn’t flow as fast as a river but it does flow and move. = media type="custom" key="19005310" align="right" =

It could take up to 80 years for the water to move through 1km of sand. There’s a layer of porous rock where all the pours are filled with water this is called Zone of saturation. There is a water table at the top of the zone of saturation this is called the water table. The level of water may rise higher in the wet seasons and lower in the dry seasons. There is a pump that you can up under the surface of the water and it will pump up the water from the pours or underground water system. The water might be hundreds of feet below the earth’s surface or it could be closer to the top of the earth’s surface. Also the water that is under the ground could be hundreds years old! There isn’t any ground water under river and lakes, but ground water is a very important part of the water cycle. Groundwater is the part of rain that seeps down through the soil until it reaches rock material that is saturated with water. Groundwater slowly moves underground, generally at a downward angle because of gravity, and may eventually seep into streams, lakes, and oceans.

Water Above The Ground
Water above the ground is everywhere in are seas, lakes streams and swamps. Scientists are starting to realize that lakes are continually forming and then gradually disappear throughout the history of the world example Lake Ontario is not as deep as it used to be.Since 1963 people are trying to keep the water levels within a four-foot range. A About 7 times over the last 50 years the water level has been out of the four-foot range. The great lakes contain 25000km3 of water one fifth of all the worlds’ fresh water. A lot of cities were built near water sources for example Regina, and Saskatchewan over look was Cana Lake. Water above the ground is basically the water that sits on the Earth, suchs as: Lake, streams, rivers, or swamps. If water under the ground is underneath the ground then water above the ground is water you can see. Water above the ground could even be a water fall.

Wells and Springs
==== I f you dig a hole in the ground or sand water will come into the hole from the ground. This happens because everywhere in the world even if the driest places there is water under the ground. If you dig deep enough you will always find water. ==== ==== This happens because water moves through the holes in the sand. This is how a well is made. A pipe is stuck down in the ground far enough to reach the pocket of water known as Underground water. After this the water is pumped up to the surface, and if you have too many wells in one place they might suck up more water. If they suck up more water then the rain can't keep up with it and puts in less water than the pipes pump up to the surface. If this happened then the well would dry out because there would be no more water for the well to pump up, this is all caused by too many wells in one area. ====

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