Question

What is meant by the term surface-water?

Answer 1

Answer:

Surface water is water on the surface of continents such as in a river , lake , or wetland . It can be contrasted with groundwater and atmospheric water .

Non-saline surface water uses is replenished by precipitation and by recruitment from ground-water . It is lost through evaporation , seepage into the ground where it becomes ground-water , used by plants for transpiration , extracted by mankind for agriculture , living , industry etc . or discharged to the sea where it becomes saline .

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