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The nation’s surface-water resources—the water within the nation’s rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, and reservoirs—are vitally important to our lifestyle . The main uses of surface water include drinking-water and other public uses, irrigation uses, and to be used by the thermoelectric-power industry to chill electricity-generating equipment.Groundwater is a crucial part of the water cycle. Groundwater is that the a part of precipitation that seeps down through the soil until it reaches rock material that's saturated with water. Water within the ground is stored within the spaces between rock particles (no, there are not any underground rivers or lakes). Groundwater slowly moves underground, generally at a downward angle (because of gravity), and should eventually seep into streams, lakes, and oceans.Here may be a simplified diagram showing how the bottom is saturated below the water level (the purple area). The ground above the water level (the pink area) could also be wet to a particular degree, but it doesn't stay saturated. The dirt and rock in this unsaturated zone contain air and some water and support the vegetation on the Earth. The saturated zone below the water level has water that fills the small spaces (pores) between rock particles and therefore the cracks (fractures) of the rocks.

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