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100
Water is carried a long distance through a system of channels, pipes, and tunnels.
What is an aqueduct?
100
The process of removing salt from salt water to make fresh water.
What is desalination?
100
The amount of average yearly rainfall in Orange County.
What is 10-15 inches.
100
About 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered by these.
What are oceans and seas.
100
Southern California shares the water from the Colorado River with this many other states.
What is six.
200
The supply of fresh water to farm fields.
What is irrigation?
200
A process in desalination where salt is trapped behind a membrane.
What is reverse osmosis?
200
The region or part of California that receives the most yearly rainfall.
What is northern part or region of California.
200
About 97 percent of Earth's water supply is this.
What is salt water.
200
This plan was enforced to promote laws and practices to cut back water use.
What is the 4.4 Plan.
300
An underground layer of rock or soil through which water easily moves.
What is an aquifer?
300
In a process in desalination in which sea water is boiled.
What is distillation?
300
The two river systems that provide much of the water to Californians.
What are the San Joaquin-Sacrament River system and the Colorado River.
300
The percent of fresh water available for people to use to drink, cook, and grow food.
What is one percent.
300
The careful use of water is called this.
What is water conservation.
400
The surface of a layer of saturated groundwater.
What is a water table?
400
These are two primary drawbacks of desalination.
What are expensive to run and brine being produced.
400
Most of Californians live in this part or region of the state.
What is the Southern part.
400
The two main sources of fresh water are these.
What are surface water and ground water.
400
The recycling of waste water so it can be used again.
What is water reclamation.
500
The recycling of waste water so it can be used again.
What is water reclamation.
500
The percent of world's fresh water produced by desalination.
What is less than one percent.
500
The average yearly rainfall and snowfall in California.
What is 23 inches or 58 centimeters.
500
The fraction/ratio and percent of fresh water that is "locked away" in glaciers and polar ice caps.
What are two-thirds of three percent.
500
The reason why California can't borrow from other states all the time or indefinitely.
What is there will not be enough water for the other states to use for their needs.
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