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Groundwater is found in the open spaces between rock and dirt particles.

Groundwater exists because water from bodies of water or precipitation sinks into the ground creating groundwater. Which is part of the water cycle, the precipitation replenished the groundwater. The groundwater that is close to the surface it seeps back into lakes river or streams.

Groundwater moves by Underground there are small aquifers that water flows through depending on the tilt or slant of the aquifer.



Groundwater is connected to the surface because surface water always sinks into the ground and some water underground seeps up into lakes and rivers and oceans.

Groundwater can move upward because at some places its shallow and the water seeps up into surface water. Some water come up from springs and wells.

Groundwater can be polluted by automotive fluids poured on the ground.
 * Excess nutrients in fertilizers
 * Bacteria and nitrates from animal feedlots where animal waste seeps into the ground
 * Leaking landfills
 * Industrial waste injected into the groundwater

Ground water can be cleaned up by
 * Pumping out pollutants and Clean it
 * Add Bacteria to eat the contaminants
 * Add oxygen to make the contaminants no longer harmful
 * Add air to make the liquid contaminants into gas contaminants

We should care about groundwater because we use it to drink water, water crops, washing, for factories and stores, and our lives depend on it.





Extra:

Does the gravitation pull from the moon effect the movement of groundwater like it does for surface water?