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stormwater
Wiktionary
n. Water that is not absorbed into soil and rapidly flows downstream, increasing the level of waterways.
Wikipedia
Stormwater is water that originates during precipitation events and snow/ice melt. Stormwater can soak into the soil (infiltrate), be held on the surface and evaporate, or runoff and end up in nearby streams, rivers, or other water bodies ( surface water).
In natural landscapes such as forests, the soil absorbs much of the stormwater and plants help hold stormwater close to where it falls. In developed environments, unmanaged stormwater can create two major issues: one related to the volume and timing of runoff water ( flooding) and the other related to potential contaminants that the water is carrying ( water pollution).
Stormwater is also a resource and important as the world's human population demand exceeds the availability of readily available water. Techniques of storm water harvesting with point source water management and purification can potentially make urban environments self-sustaining in terms of water.
Usage examples of "stormwater".
We fell a couple of meters, nothing in our gravity, and splashed into a stormwater drain.
It had originally been commissioned by the city as a stormwater reservoir, then changed to a garbage dump.
I do not understand the current frenzy, since point-source discharges from the floodplain's seventeen small towns produce in one calendar year twelve times the amount of chemically contaminated stormwater runoff, groundwater leaching, and coliform discharge into surface waters than the combined discharge of all farms in the floodplain for the past decade.