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Earlier this month, the USGS announced a new water cycle diagram. Their press release stated, “The revised version replaces one used by hundreds of thousands of educators and students ...

Representations of the Earth’s water cycle used in textbooks throughout the world need to be updated, say scientists who have drawn up a new set of diagrams to include effects of human interference.

It's hard to find a diagram of the carbon or nitrogen cycle that doesn't show factories and fertilizers. However, our drawings of the water cycle are stuck in the 17th century." ...