1. Ground Water By: Tiffanie Thornton

2. Ground Water • Definition of Ground Water • collects or flows beneath the Earth's surface, filling the porous spaces in soil, sediment, and rocks. • Groundwater originates from rain and from melting snow and ice and is the source of water for aquifers, springs, and wells.

3. Ground Water Rules • The EPA established the ground water on November 8, 2006, to increase the protection of against microbial pathogens in public water systems. • This rule applies to system that add surface water and ground water together • Also to make sure if its directly added it has the right treatment

4. Ground Water • Ground water is influenced on what is flows through • atmospheric pressure flows from areas of higher altitude to lower • and from areas of higher pressure to lower • We get our from ground water which is pumped from under ground

6. Ground Water: Aquifers • Aquifers are a huge storehouse of water which is a type of ground water

8. References • http://www.groundwater.org/gi/gi html • http://www.grow.arizona.edu/water/hydrologiccycle/groundwaterflow.shtml\ • http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1186/html/gen_facts.html • http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/groundwater.html • http://www.epa.gov/safewater/disinfection/gwr/index.html • http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgwaquifer.html • http://west.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/pager.php?id=78