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The image depicts a comparative side-by-side diagram of water cycle processes in forested versus urban areas. On the forested side: permeable topsoil above less permeable subsoil on rock allows for processes such as infiltration, baseflow, evaporation, transpiration, and precipitation, resulting in significant infiltration contributing to water table replenishment and runoff formation. In contrast, the urban side features reduced infiltration, reduced baseflow, reduced evaporation, reduced transpiration, increased erosion, and increased polluted runoff due to impermeable surfaces, illustrating the impacts of urbanization on water movement and distribution.
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The diagrames illustrates the water cycle in both planted areas and cities.
Overall, the water cycle has five stages, where in urban areas the transportation and evaporation are declined compared with their rate in forested areas, also the infiltration rate differs in both areas.
To begin with, stages that occur above the soil, water transpirate into the air and evaporate due to tempreture, high above where the clouds are formed and then water returns as rain droplets in the precipitation process,these stages frequency are significantly decrease in cities.
Regarding the stages after rain water reached the soil, the storm water infiltrate through the top layeers of the soil, and then stored as ground water. The rural areas have higher infiltration rates that help them maintain large quantities of water table. In contrast, the urban areas soil contain a lot of permeable rocks that prevents water to go deep in the ground, and most of the storm flaws as run off.
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