You've Been Misled About The Water Cycle

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You've Been Misled About The Water Cycle with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science, water cycle, ground water, aquifer, well, volcano, teamwater

In school, you probably learned about the water cycle with a diagram. The problem is…it’s wrong – or at the very least, pretty misleading.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

- Aquifer: a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

- Confined aquifer: an aquifer below the land surface that is saturated with water. Layers of impermeable material are both above and below the aquifer.

- Freshwater: naturally occurring water that is not salty, and is suitable for consumption if clean or processed.

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Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Director

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Special thanks to Dr. John van Stan and Dr. Travis Swanson.