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[14 |, The South Marysburgh Mirror PURE COUNTY BOTTLED WATER Our purification system includes: Filtration process Sediment filter Softened Carbon charcoal filter Reverse osmosis Ultra-violet light Charcoal buffer filter For information on home delivery phone 476-1376 17 MacSteven Drive Picton KOK 2T0 | Hicks’ General Store Milford 476-5258 CLOSED Reopening March 1, 2008 A Sea of Indifference - Continued from page 13 who have vision. We need, as a Church Corporate, to develop the courage to leave the four walls of the sanctuary and be in our communities with a strident GROUNDWATER 101 Groundwater is so important, but quite often for- gotten. Nearly three million people in Ontario use and de- pend on groundwater every day, but some don’t even know it. To keep you ‘au courant’ about the importance new voice, or drift on in a sea of seeming i timbers leaking, thankful that we may not be around on the ship when it finally takes its rest. Yours in Hope, Pastor Ian. of, we present Groundwater 101. Groundwater is literally water stored under- ground. Sounds simple right? Well, not quite. Water on earth is constantly being re-cycled through a process known as the hydrologic cycle. Water from our lakes, riv- ers and oceans evaporates and forms clouds. Depending on weather conditions the water vapor within those clouds condenses and falls back to earth in the form of rain or snow. This precipitation runs off into our lakes, rivers and streams or seeps into the ground to collect in formations called aquifers. An aquifer is the layer underground at which groundwater is found moving through soil particles and cracks and crevices in rock. Groundwater is not confined to only a few channels underground, it’s actually found almost everywhere under the earth’s surface. Groundwa- ter sometimes discharges into local lakes, rivers and Continued on page 19