Water Cycle
This type of water makes up almost all of the water on Earth.
What is Salt Water (Ocean Water)?
Plastic waste in the ocean turns into this.
What are microplastics?
This process removes salt from ocean water.
What is desalination?
These use two options to best utilize the amount per flush.
What are dual-flush toilets?
This "Act" was passed in the United States in 1970.
What is the Clean Water Act?
When water seeps through spaces in the soil.
What is infiltration?
There are five of these 'major circular currents' across Earth's oceans.
What are gyres?
This is the primary reason why desalination is not more widely used.
What is it is too expensive?
Low-flow showerheads and faucets use these to reduce water consumption.
What are aerators?
The EPA lists these, because they do not meet one or more of their standards.
What are impaired waters?
What we call evaporation from leaves.
What is transpiration?
This is the name of one of the most well known trash piles in our oceans.
What is The Great Pacific Trash Vortex?
This can be done to slow runoff and increase infiltration.
What is contour plowing?
Taking shorter showers causes this.
What is less water used?
These are also known as 'forever chemicals'.
What are Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)?
Liquid water is heated and converted to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
The Great Pacific Trash Vortex is located in this gyre.
What is the North Pacific gyre?
This can be used to help water trees with high water demands.
What is drip irrigation?
These kinds of appliances run longer while using much less water per cycle.
What are High Efficiency appliances?
This is known as water pollution that comes from a single, identifiable source.
What is point source pollution?
Living organisms hold approximately how much of the total water on Earth?
What is 1%?
This is the estimated amount of trash located in our oceans.
What is 79k tons?
This process uses drought-tolerant plants in the homes and yards in arid climates.
What is Xeriscaping?
These systems recirculate used water from the sink or shower into the toilet or irrigation system.
What are graywater systems?
In 2010, this oil rig's massive explosion caused a major environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Deepwater Horizon?