evaporation
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Kanchan Narayan, 44, uses a damp cloth-wrapped bottle hung on a string, cooling the drinking water inside via evaporation.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
Eric Tillemans, DWP’s interim aqueduct manager, told the state board that the city’s studies have found Mono Lake’s levels are “more dependent on precipitation, evaporation and runoff than any other factors.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
Using nearly 20 years of satellite measurements, Jiang and co-author Jennifer Burney of Stanford University quantified how much of global rainfall begins as land-based evaporation.
From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025
"When the land dries out, it reduces evaporation, which in turn reduces future rainfall -- creating a self-reinforcing drought cycle."
From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025
The canal was a flop: some parts ran uphill, apparently because of incompetent engineering, and the rest lost nine-tenths of its water to evaporation and seepage.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing evaporation
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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