Water

5. Composed of 3.5% dissolved salts by weight
7. Is expensive and the cost are handed down to the consumer
10. A significant regional ecosystem or community of plants and animals – forest, grassland, or desert.
12. Water stormed under the Earth’s surface
14. The entire land area that drains water into a particular body of water such as a river, pond, lake, or ocean.

1. Low population densities and strong groundwater protection programs help maintain the high quality of drinking water.
2. Generally defined as areas which are saturated by surface or groundwater
3. Any inland body of water that is found in a topographic depression. Lakes are NOT reservoirs.
4. Created when deep snow recrystallizes due to the weight of overlying snow
6. Has a global distribution that comes in various forms
8. A dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganisms
9. A rock, sand, or gravel layer that can store and yield significant amounts of water.
11. human tolerance is 2%
13. 33% of Groundwater