Across
- 5. - charge anew; load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully"
- 6. - the removal of salt (especially from sea water)
- 8. - excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life
- 10. - treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms
- 11. - the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources; (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations; an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
- 12. - the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
- 13. - tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil); lake used to store water for community use; anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; a large or extra supply of something
- 14. - underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
Down
- 1. - capable of being sustained
- 2. - (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams; a shortened version of a written work; atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold; the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state; the act of increasing the density of something; the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- 3. - the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid
- 4. - the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
- 7. - the emission of water vapor from the leaves of plants; the passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature; the process of giving off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes
- 9. - water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
- 12. - the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter; the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium