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close this bookBetter Farming Series 28 - Water: Where Water Comes from (FAO, 1981, 31 p.)
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View the documentThe process begins again

Evaporation

20. At certain times water evaporates from the surface of the soil or from swamps, lakes or streams. It becomes water vapour.


Water evaporates

21. We cannot see water vapour. We cannot use it. Water vapour rises into the air to form new clouds.