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six key stages:
• Stage 1 - evaporation
• Stage 2 - condensation
• Stage 3 - precipitation (rainfall)
• Stage 4 - infiltration (soaking)
• Stage 5 - runoff/collection
The Water Cycle
Transport
Condensation
• Stage 6 - transpiration.

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Infiltration and the Water Cycle | U.S. Geological Survey

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You can't see it, but a large portion of the world's freshwater lies underground. It may all start as precipitation, but through infiltration and seepage, water soaks into the ground in vast amounts. Water in the ground keeps all plant life alive and serves peoples' needs, too.

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Infiltration is the process by which precipitation or water soaks into subsurface soils and moves into rocks through cracks and pore spaces. As we mentioned before, the bulk of rainwater and melted snow end up infiltrated.

But where does it go in the ground?

Water may get absorbed by the soil and may stay in the soil for a long time until it gradually gets evaporated. If there is a lot of vegetative covers (green plants), the infiltrated water can also get absorbed by plant roots and later transpired. Infiltration occurs in the upper layers of the ground but may also continue further downwards into the water table.

Depending on how saturated the ground is, the water can continue downwards to replenish water tables and aquifers. This is called percolation . If there are water bodies nearby, the infiltrated water can also end up in the water bodies after.

The rate of infiltration depends on factors such as, the amount of precipitation, the type of soils, the amount of vegetative cover over the area, pre-saturation levels, the topography of the land, as well as the levels of evapotranspiration in that region.

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Infiltration is the process by which precipitation or water soaks into subsurface soils and moves into rocks through cracks and pore spaces. As we mentioned before, the bulk of rainwater and melted snow end up infiltrated. But where does it go in the ground?

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