What is the Hydrologic or Water Cycle?
Water is always moving. Surface water, warmed by the sun, evaporates into the atmosphere. Water vapor is carried by the wind all over the globe. Eventually the water vapor cools and condenses into clouds, fog, dew or various forms of precipitation. Once on the ground the water can evaporate directly or travel as runoff into the ocean, rivers, lakes or a ground water system, eventually to evaporate again. This dynamic pathway of water is called the Water Cycle.

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1. Why didn't the City lift all water restrictions and only roll-back to a less stringent Stage II Moderate Conservation Alert in May 2023?
2. Now that the drought is over in California will my water rates go down?
3. What is a Smart Irrigation Controller?
4. What is an Aquifer?
5. What is the Hydrologic or Water Cycle?
6. What is an acre-foot of water?
7. Cooling Tower pH Conductivity Controller?
8. What is a High Efficiency Clothes Washer (HECW)?
9. What is a Pre-Rinse Kitchen Sprayer?
10. What is a Connectionless Food Steamer?
11. What is a rotating nozzle?
12. What is a Waterbroom?
13. What is Compost?
14. What is Evapotranspiration (ET)?
15. What is the Water Calculator?
16. What is the Water Factor?
17. What is the Watering Index?
18. What is Transpiration?