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A stream of surface water reaches a porous portion of sediment and seeps into the ground this water eventually joined a large reservoir of water located beneath the earth's surface

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Water that infiltrates Earth's surface becomes groundwater, slowly seeping downward into extensive layers of porous soil and rock called aquifers. Under the pull of gravity, groundwater flows slowly and steadily through the aquifer. In low areas it emerges in springs and streams.
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