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Impervious surfaces like roofs and parking lots cannot absorb water. A large volume of rainfall in a relatively short period of time produces runoff, which carries sediments and chemicals into bodies of water. Storm drains cannot always handle the volume of water, or get backed up for other reasons, creating puddles like this one in a parking lot. Video taken in Arnold, Maryland.
Stormwater runoff
Cheetah standing still
Acinonyx jubatus (Cheetah)
Walking tiger
Panthera Tigris (Tiger)
During heavy rainfall, water runs off impervious surfaces like sidewalks. Manmade or paved surfaces like roofs and roads cannot absorb water like vegetated surfaces, so rainwater flows directly into the nearest body of water, carrying sediments and other pollutants with it.
Runoff in action
Illustration of a leucistic axolotl.
Ambystoma mexicanum (Axolotl)
Illustration of Pomacanthus imperator (Emperor Angelfish)
Pomacanthus imperator (Emperor Angelfish)
side view of bird
Mniotilta varia (black and white warbler)
Side view of bird
Vireo solitarius (Blue headed vireo)
African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus), African spoonbill (Platalea alba), and yellow-billed stork (Mycteria ibis) feeding in a marsh in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
Marsh birds feeding
Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
Varanus niloticus (Nile monitor)
Yellow-billed storks (Mycteria ibis) in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
Mycteria ibis (yellow-billed stork)
Yellow-billed storks (Mycteria ibis) in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
Mycteria ibis (yellow-billed stork) 2
Saddle-billed storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis (saddle-billed…
A mother white rhino with her baby in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia.
Ceratotherium simum (white rhinoceros) with baby
Illustration of a Brown Surgeonfish (Acanthurus Nigrofuscus)
Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Brown Surgeonfish)
Illustration of a ball-style watering trough for livestock
Livestock watering system
Illustration of a manure storage structure
Manure storage structure
Potomac River sunset
Potomac River Sunset
Illustration of Limulus polyphemus (Horseshoe crab).
Limulus polyphemus (Horseshoe crab) 2
Drone
Drone
Myotis septentrionalis (northern long-eared bat)
Myotis septentrionalis (northern long-eared bat)
Myotis sodalis (Indiana bat)
Myotis sodalis (Indiana bat)
Stygobromus hayi (Hay's Spring ampihpod)
Stygobromus hayi (Hay's Spring ampihpod)
Illustration of Orectolobus spp. (Wobbegong)
Orectolobus spp. (Wobbegong)
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