Actually, you can...If you have a system that can collect water from the outside, then you can heat it and cause it to turn into condensation and have that condensation run into something that collects the water :)
JSuburbia: Actually, you can...If you have a system that can collect water from the outside, then you can heat it and cause it to turn into condensation and have that condensation run into something that collects the water :)
Itsy Bitsy Spider2 climbed up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed poor Itsy out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain. And Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the spout again. - Children's Rhyme Rain plays a major part in the process commonly referred to as the 'water cycle'. This doesn't mean anything to do with a kind of bike you can ride in wet places, it's the way that nature keeps the 'blue planet' well, blue.
In the process, the sun heats large expanses of water, which causes some of the water to evaporate into vapour. This water vapour rises into the atmosphere with warm air currents, but as the warm air rises it cools and the water vapour then changes into tiny droplets. As the droplets grow in size they create clouds and when the clouds are big and heavy with water droplets, 'burst' so to speak, and the water droplets fall back to the ground as rain (although if the air is cool enough, the droplets may form hail or snow).
The rain then soaks into the ground where it is either taken up by plants and returned to the air, or filters through the soil back into aquifers3 where it is often pumped from for use in agriculture or extravagant water features. Failing that, it simply falls back into water courses that flow into rivers, that then meet larger bodies of water again, like the sea. Then the cycle begins all over again. However, not all rain reaches the Earth's surface; some evaporates while falling through dry air. When no rain reaches the ground through evaporation, it is called virga - a phenomenon often seen in especially hot and dry desert areas.
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