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The water resources on earth.

There are two types or water, first is the fresh water the water that we
usually use, and the the water that people can drink, also Freshwater is defined as having a low salt
concentration — usually less than 1%.
and the second types of water is the salt water, the water in ocean, contains a higher concentration of
dissolved salts.

Salt water ocean, the majority of water in earth is salty, salt water or the ocean has a 97% water on earth.
Saltwater (ocean) is the fishes habitat, humans can only drink saltwater but there is a process so we can
drink saltwater and it's called desalination.

There are three major zone in the ocean 1st is the surface layer
The top surface layer is called the epipelagic zone, and is sometimes referred to as the "ocean skin" or
"sunlight zone.

2nd is the thermohaline These deep-ocean currents are driven by differences in the water's density, which
is controlled by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline).

And lastly the deep zone, the lowest layer in the ocean.

Fresh water is vital to life and yet it is a finite resource. Of all the water on Earth, just 3% is fresh water.
Although critical to natural and human communities, fresh water is threatened by a myriad of forces
including overdevelopment, polluted runoff and global warming.
Ice caps and galciers is a thick layer of ice and snow and it is found at North and South pole,
approximately 90% of the ice in the earth is in Antarctica.
Fresh water-permafrost is a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout at least two
years straight occurring chiefly in polar regions.

Freshwater - groundwater
Makikita ito madalas sa mga balon, like on the picture, and also there are water on the ground underneath
your feet. An aquifer is a body of rock and/or sediment that holds groundwater.

Surface water and groundwater are reservoirs that can feed into each other. While surface water can seep
underground to become groundwater, groundwater can resurface on land to replenish surface water.
Springs are formed in these locations.

stream is a body of water that flows on Earth's surface. The word stream is often used interchangeably
with river, though rivers usually describe larger streams.

lake, any relatively large body of slowly moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin of
appreciable size. Definitions that precisely distinguish lakes, ponds, swamps, and even rivers and other
bodies of nonoceanic water are not well established.

A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water, either permanently or seasonally.
Flooding results in oxygen-free processes prevailing, especially in the soils.

There are 3 types of wetlands


Marsh- marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
swamp is a forested wetland. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water
play a role in creating this environment. Swamps vary in size and are located all around the world.

Estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea.

flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.[1] In the
sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide.
There are many types of floods 1st one is
Riverine Flooding is when streams and rivers exceed the capacity of their natural or constructed channels
to accommodate water flow and water overflows the banks, spilling out into adjacent low-lying, dry land.

flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be
caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or by meltwater
from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields.

Coastal flooding normally occurs when dry and low-lying land is submerged by seawater.

Surface water flooding is also known as pluvial flooding. It occurs when the volume of rainfall exceeds
the capacity of drains and surface water sewers and is unable to drain away through drainage systems or
soak into the land, and instead flows over the land.

River is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another
river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without
reaching another body of water.

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