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1 Hydrologic Cycle

2 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Water cycle Figure 10.2 10-3

3 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-6 Ocean/freshwater percentages Figure 10.4 Glaciers and Ice sheets

4 Distribution of Water

5 Freshwater Resources

6 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-5 Earth’s water compartments

7 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-7 Groundwater Figure 10.6

8 Water Table

9 Aquifers and Aquitards

10 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-8 Recharge zone of aquifer Figure 10.7

11 Artesian Wells

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13 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-10 Growth of global water use Figure 10.9 Source: Data from L. A. Shiklomanov, “Global Water Resources” in Nature and Resources, vol. 26, p. 34-43, UNESCO, Paris.

14 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-12 Water table/cone of depression Figure 10.15

15 Cone of depression

16 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Mean annual precipitation Figure 10.3 10-4 Source: From Jerome Fellman et al., Human Geography, 4 th ed. © 1995 Times Mirror Higher Education Group, Inc., Dubuque, Iowa. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by permission.

17 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Water shortage/Yellow River Figure 10.1 10-1

18 Aswan Dam

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21 Hoover Dam

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23 Between 1911 and 1923, Mulholland's agents quietly purchased 95 percent of water rights to the Owens River. Against overwhelming odds, Mulholland constructed a 233-mile aqueduct across the blistering Mojave Desert to deliver Owens River water to downtown L.A.

24 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-11 Water withdrawals by income Figure 10.10 Source: Data from World Bank, 1992.

25 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Water measurement units 10-2

26 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-9 World’s ten largest rivers

27 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-13 Typical household water use

28 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-14 Water pollutant categories

29 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-15 Oxygen sag Figure 10.20

30 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-16 Watershed degradation Figure 10.23

31 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-17 U.S. river and lake conditions Figure 10.24 Source: Data from USDA and Natural Resources Conservation Service, America’s Private Land: A Geography of Hope, USDA, 1996.

32 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-18 Pollution infiltration Figure 10.26

33 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-19 Oil pollution in the oceans Figure 10.28

34 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-20 Sewage treatment Figure 10.29

35 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-21 Investment in sanitation Figure 10.30 Source: World Bank estimates based on research paper by Dennis Anderson and William Cavendish. “Efficiency and Substitution in Pollution Abatement: Simulation Studies in Three Sectors.”

36 Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. 10-22 Water quality legislation

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