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It is water leaving farm fields, in the form of rain or any other liquid effect and collecting animal waste, excess fertilizers and draining into and polluting streams and rivers. It endangers the water supplies for humans and the eco-systems

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How do you use the word runoff in a sentence?

The runoff from the farm polluted the stream.


Fertilizer runoff from a farm is an example of what?

nonpoint source pollution


What type of runoff would you find pesticides in?

lakes/rivers/lakes/dams/drinking reservoirs/ Regarding actual types of runoff, pesticides would most likely be found in farm and agricultural runoff resulting from ploughed furrows between crops.


Water in the Arctic ocean has more dissolved oxygen than water in the Gulf of Mexico because?

Less farm and industrial runoff reaches such sea: farm runoff - with high quantities of fertilizer - provides the development of oxygen-consuming algae, which depletes the oxygen and kills marine life.


What is snowmelt runoff?

Runoff is water that flows over the ground surface. Snowmelt runoff is runoff from melting snow.


Glacial runoff and what else provides water to the large rivers of India?

Runoff from rain and runoff from melting snow (which is NOT the same as glacial runoff).


What happend in Spring 2000 in Walkerton?

In spring of 2000 Walkerton's water supply became contanminated with highly dangerous 0157:H7 strain of E.Coli bateria from farm runoff


Use runoff in a sentence?

New construction allowed runoff from hillsides which flooded basements in nearby homes.Runoff naturally seeks a path of least resistance.Continual runoff can undermine hills, leading to mudslides and ground failures.


What is construction runoff?

runoff caused by construction working


Does the causes of acid rain include runoff from cars?

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That water that moves across Earths surface after rainfall is called what?

runoff


What are the different stromwater runoff problems facing Arizona?

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