T/F question

Surface water from a watershed will become groundwater when it infiltrates the ground.

• True

• False

Groundwater can be recharged laterally from nearby lakes, streams, and rivers

• True

• False

California's water problems are exacerbated by the fact that most of the population lives in the south but most of the

water supply is in the north

• True

• False

In the last three decades, the amount of water used in the U.S. has remained stable even as the population increased

• True

• False

A large amount of the world's usable water comes from desalination.

• True

• False

The main cause of water waste is leakage in water distribution systems.

• True

• False

Water pollution threatens wildlife but not the health of human beings

• True

• False

The Great Lakes contain 95% of the fresh surface water in the United States

• True

• False

Many less-developed countries dump the majority of their untreated sewage directly into freshwater ecosystems

• True

• False

Flowing rivers and streams can recover from degradable and non-degradable waste pollution by natural recovery

processes.

• True

• False