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Life on earth depends on the continuous circulation of the earth’s water. This movement of water from the oceans, lakes, and streams as water vapor to the atmosphere, its condensation and precipitation back to the earth’s surface, its flow over the land and return to the ocean, its penetration into the ground and use by plants, which return part of the water to the atmosphere through transpiration, and its subsurface return to the sea is known as the hydrologic cycle or water cycle (Fig. 22.1). Man and animals enter this cycle as users of water and producers of waste in many forms.
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Potter, N.N. (1986). Water and Waste. In: Food Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7262-0_22
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