1. Water Underground Drought: A long period of scarce precipitation
Droughts can affect surface water and underground water sources.

2. Fresh Water Locations--Groundwater
What is groundwater?
The water found in cracks and pores in sand, gravel and rocks below the earth’s surface
What is an aquifer?
A porous rock layer underground that is a reservoir for water

3. How does water move Underground?
Through cracks and spaces in layers of rock
Effects of different underground Materials
Permeable: gravel, rock, soil
Impermeable: clay & granite

4. WATER ZONES
Begins when water reaches an impermeable layer.
Unsaturated zone: The layer of rocks and soil above the water table.
Water table: the area on top of the saturated zone. Can rise and lower depending on precipitation.
Saturated zone: is the area of permeable rock or soil that is totally filled, or saturated, with water.

6. Bringing up Groundwater
Aquifers: any underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water.
Can range in sizes
Can rise and lower depending on precipitation.
Ogallala aquifer runs from South Dakota to Texas
Wells:
Used to obtain underground water from an aquifer
Wells are a channel dug into the aquifer.
Wells can go dry when the level of the aquifer drops.

7. Bringing up Groundwater (cont.)
Artesian well: uses the pressure within an aquifer to raise the water to the surface.

8. Springs and Geysers
Springs – is where water blows out of openings in rocks or ground.
They can be normal temperature
They can be “hot” springs – meaning the water is warm.
Geysers – are formed when boiling hot water and white steam burst out of the earth.
Geyser is an Icelandic word meaning “gusher”
Water is boiling

10. Remote Sensing

11. Remote sensing involves the collection of data.
Earth scientists use the technique of remote sensing to monitor or measure phenomena or processes found in the Earth's lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

12. Electromagnetic radiation is energy transmitted through space as particles or electromagnetic waves or the process of their emission. Electromagnetic radiation is emitted in discrete units known as photons that travel at the speed of light as electromagnetic waves.

13. Data is then stored or filed as layers of information in a GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

14. What is used to obtain Data
In the 1960s, a revolution in remote sensing technology began with the deployment of space {C}satellites. - TIROS-1, which was launched by the United States using an Atlas rocket on April 1, 1960.
Early satellite remote sensors did not use conventional film to produce their images. Instead, the sensors digitally capture the images using a device similar to a television camera.
Once captured, the data is then transmitted electronically to receiving stations found on the Earth's surface.
Aerial Photographs from planes
Today, the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) system of satellites provides most of the remotely sensed weather information for North America.

16. Water Witching from Space
Lab

17. SUMMARY
SUMMARIZE UNDERGROUND WATER