Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved...
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runoff, usually reaching the sea. Water plays an important role in the world economy. Approximately 70% of the fresh water used by humans goes to agriculture...
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sources of fresh water include surface water, under river flow, groundwater and frozen water. Surface water is water in a river, lake or fresh water wetland...
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From Fresh Water is a 1984 posthumous album by Stan Rogers. It was one of a series of concept albums Rogers intended to do about the regions of Canada...
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water in Earth's atmosphere and crust comes from saline seawater, while fresh water accounts for nearly 1% of the total. The vast bulk of the water on...
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Freshwater fish (redirect from Fresh water fish)
are fish species that spend some or all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less...
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Freshwater (disambiguation) (redirect from Fresh Water)
fresh water in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Freshwater is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water. Freshwater or Fresh Water...
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not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers...
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fresh water from seawater or contaminated water. By compressing the steam produced by boiling water, 175 US gal (660 L; 146 imp gal) of fresh water could...
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Brine (redirect from Brine water)
requires wastewater treatment for proper disposal or further utilization (fresh water recovery). Brines are produced in multiple ways in nature. Modification...
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Collect Pond (redirect from Fresh water pond)
Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond, was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of...
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Environmental degradation (redirect from Water degradation)
of fresh water on Earth. Approximately only 2.5% of all of the water on Earth is fresh water, with the rest being salt water. 69% of fresh water is frozen...
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decrease. Bull sharks are euryhaline and can thrive in both salt and fresh water. They are known to travel far up rivers, and have been known to travel...
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Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand....
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Freshwater crab (redirect from Fresh-water crab)
tolerate freshwater conditions (euryhaline) or are secondarily adapted to fresh water. The phylogenetic relationships between these families is still a matter...
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Freshwater shrimp (redirect from Fresh water shrimp)
Freshwater shrimp are any shrimp which live in fresh water. This includes: Any Caridea (shrimp) which live in fresh water, especially the family Atyidae Species...
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Red algae (redirect from Fresh water red algae)
The vast majority of these are marine with about 200 that live only in fresh water. Some examples of species and genera of red algae are: Cyanidioschyzon...
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Ecoregion (redirect from Fresh water ecoregion)
biogeographic realm. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural...
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of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time. However, the partitioning of the water into the major reservoirs of ice, fresh water, salt water and...
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Naiad (redirect from Water nymph)
over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very...
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birds, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water. Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such...
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Hydrosphere (category Water)
Saltwater accounts for 97.5% of this amount, whereas fresh water accounts for only 2.5%. Of this fresh water, 68.9% is in the form of ice and permanent snow...
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and Agriculture Organization (AQUASTAT data). Fresh and unpolluted water accounts for 0.003% of total water available globally. According to World Bank...
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Hydra vulgaris (redirect from Fresh-water polyp)
Hydra vulgaris, the fresh-water polyp, is a small freshwater hydroid with length from 10 mm to 30 mm and width about 1 mm. The hydra have four to twelve...
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Great Lakes (category Articles using infobox body of water without pushpin map)
world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is 94,250 square miles (244,106 km2), and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is 5...
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sea and migrate into fresh water to spawn; and catadromous, in which adult fish live in fresh water and migrate into salt water to spawn. Marine forage...
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streams, where fresh water is running, while others thrive in swamps, ditches, and paddy fields. Most crayfish cannot tolerate polluted water, although some...
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Diego Garcia (section Fresh water supply)
periodicity for the fresh water to form a series of convex, freshwater, Ghyben-Herzberg lenses floating on the heavier salt water in the saturated sediments...
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worshipped as a god. Ap, group of water goddesses. Apam Napat, god of fresh water, such as in rivers and lakes. Danu, goddess of primordial waters, mother...
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