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How to use surface water in a sentence

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Along the Oregon coast, upwelling occurs when spring winds consistently push warmer surface water offshore.
The seeds of F. cernua disperse primarily by gravity and secondarily by surface water run-off after rare heavy rains.
I remembered standing on the very tip of its bow, looking down at the surface water boiling around it.
Without any surface water, drinking water had to be carted from wells sunk on the beach.
The burn contained surface water from a nearby outfall that could be contaminated with sewage, as well as animal faeces from farms.
The reservoirs store rainwater, groundwater, and surface water until water is needed on the field.
All products have the potential to contaminate ground and surface water if used improperly through leaching, runoff and off-target application.
In both projects, the rainwater falls from the roof without gutters, and open gravel trenches redirect the surface water.
In the Kalahari Desert, one of their domiciles, surface water is not to be found.
Somewhere in the maze of subterranean cracks below the village, contaminated surface water was leaking into clean groundwater.
So it is clear what groundwater and surface water are understood to mean, and who the targets of the bylaw are.
Energy advected to and from the lake by precipitation, surface water, and ground water had little effect on evaporation rates.
A newly excavated shallow pond has created greater surface water for wetland wildlife.
American lobsters have a complex life cycle that involves a 3-10 week free-swimming larval stage in surface water.
Warm surface water is carried from the low latitudes to the higher polar latitudes as a surface current.
On their release from the antheridia, the antherozoids must then swim through surface water to fertilize neighbouring egg cells.
The money will help to cure the flooding problem and will also ensure that the road surface water from the Carlow road will also be piped.
A lush habitat appears where surface water accumulates in shallow depressions to form seasonal or fairly permanent ponds.
Sewage is slopped out into the surface water drainage system through the roadside gullies.
If the steering becomes unresponsive the car could be aquaplaning on surface water.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Below the surface water is a zone in which temperature decreases and density and salinity increase with depth.
Select a flat ten-acre ploughed field, so sited that all the surface water of the surrounding country drains into it.
If the earth is mounded around the box, barrel or pit, surface water cannot run in.
In 2014, scientists pointed to abnormally strong trade winds that drag over the tropical Pacific and push surface water westward.
In many coastal areas, the groundwater as well as surface water sources are slowly becoming undrinkable because of salinity intrusion.
Nor can surface water be changed into a water course by impounding it.
On Sunday, heavy rain combined with snow melt could lead to localised surface water and flooding.
Dams' storage level of ground and surface water has risen at Homs and Hama Provinces due to the latest rainfalls.
Studies conducted there during the past 10 years confirmed the presence of PPCPs in treated and untreated sewage effluent, surface water, groundwater, and drinking water.
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