You've Been Misled About The Water Cycle

Опубликовано 7 августа 2025, 16:01

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In school, you probably learned about the water cycle with a diagram. The problem is…it’s wrong – or at the very least, pretty misleading.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Aquifer: a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
- Confined aquifer: an aquifer below the land surface that is saturated with water. Layers of impermeable material are both above and below the aquifer.
- Freshwater: naturally occurring water that is not salty, and is suitable for consumption if clean or processed.

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REFERENCES
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“1D Compaction Modeling of Subsidence in California’s San Joaquin Valley.” The Center for Groundwater Evaluation and Management, Stanford University, 2017, gemcenter.stanford.edu/1d-comp...

Abbott, Benjamin W., et al. “Human Domination of the Global Water Cycle Absent from Depictions and Perceptions.” Nature Geoscience, vol. 12, no. 7, 10 June 2019, pp. 533–540, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-037...

“The Water Cycle (PNG) | U.S. Geological Survey.” usgs.gov/media/images/water-cy...

US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “What Is Subsidence?” Noaa.gov, 2019, oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/su...

Woessner, William W., and Eileen P. Poeter. “6.3 Confined Aquifers.” Books.gw-Project.org, 21 Aug. 2020, books.gw-project.org/hydrogeol...

Special thanks to Dr. John van Stan and Dr. Travis Swanson.