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  2. Water cycle - Wikipedia

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    The residence time of a reservoir within the hydrologic cycle is the average time a water molecule will spend in that reservoir (see table). It is a measure of the average age of the water in that reservoir. Groundwater can spend over 10,000 years beneath Earth's surface before leaving. [17] Particularly old groundwater is called fossil water ...

  3. Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    Some reservoirs generating hydroelectricity use pumped recharge: a high-level reservoir is filled with water using high-performance electric pumps at times when electricity demand is low, and then uses this stored water to generate electricity by releasing the stored water into a low-level reservoir when electricity demand is high.

  4. Body of water - Wikipedia

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    a body of water such as a lake, sea inlet, firth, fjord, estuary or bay. Scottish Mangrove swamp: a saline coastal habitat of mangrove trees and shrubs. Marsh: a wetland featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. See also salt marsh.

  5. Brine pool - Wikipedia

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    Brine pools are created through three primary methods: brine rejection below sea ice, dissolution of salts into bottom water through salt tectonics, and geothermal heating of brine at tectonic boundaries and hot spots. Brine rejection: When sea water freezes, salts do not fit into the crystalline structure of ice, so the salts are expelled. The ...

  6. Biogeochemical cycle - Wikipedia

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    The reservoir is in a steady state if Q = S, that is, if the sources balance the sinks and there is no change over time. [25] The residence or turnover time is the average time material spends resident in the reservoir. If the reservoir is in a steady state, this is the same as the time it takes to fill or drain the reservoir.

  7. Soil salinity - Wikipedia

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    Salinity from irrigation can occur over time wherever irrigation occurs, since almost all water (even natural rainfall) contains some dissolved salts. [5] When the plants use the water, the salts are left behind in the soil and eventually begin to accumulate. This water in excess of plant needs is called the leaching fraction.

  8. Fresh water - Wikipedia

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    Many organisms can thrive on salt water, but the great majority of vascular plants and most insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds need fresh water to survive. Fresh water is the water resource that is of the most and immediate use to humans. Fresh water is not always potable water, that is, water safe to drink by humans.

  9. Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    The Earth's crust can be divided into two regions: the saturated zone or phreatic zone (e.g., aquifers, aquitards, etc.), where all available spaces are filled with water, and the unsaturated zone (also called the vadose zone), where there are still pockets of air that contain some water, but can be filled with more water.