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What is the water amount in caves?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

What is the amount of water in a river?

It's not an answerable question because it is specific to the cave's own hydrology and the weather: some caves are dry all year round apart from minor drips from joints in the roof, others can carry raging torrents or even fill to the roof in flood.

Still other caves, or at least passages within them, are permanently water-filled. Such passages are called "sumps" and with a very few exceptions can be negotiated only by properly-equipped, properly trained cave-divers who are also expereinced cavers anyway.

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