water cycle

(text-colour:blue) [You feel yourself slowly getting smaller and smaller, wetter and wetter] (text-colour:cyan)[[okay???]]

You have turned into a droplet of water!!!!! Time to start your journey through the glorious Water Cycle!!!! Do you: [[Evaporate]] OR [[Percolate]]

(text-color: white)[(text-style:"blur")[You have evaporated. As you rise to the sky, the temperature gets cooler, turning you into a cloud.]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zOlMzf2.gif" alt="evap" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (text-color: #06364D)[[[Condense]]]

Once you have (text-colour: white)[(text-style: "expand")[percolated]] into the ground, you enter the groundwater supply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Travelling in between tight porous bodies of rock, how exciting!! From here, you can discharge into many locations. [[River]] [[Seep]] [[Tree]]

(text-color:white)[You are in a cloud!! Do you fall as ] [[Rain]] [[Snow]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/xQr46R4.gif" alt="cloud" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>

You rain down from the heavens, onto [[Pittsburgh, PA]] [[The green green grass]] [[the DESERT]]

You fall as snow on a great mountain. Unfortunately it is winter, so you will remain here until spring. <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ZAKUc3Q.gif" alt="snow" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[Springtime!]]

You bound over white waters and through the stream, gliding alongside fish. <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/l614GrE.gif" alt="river" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> Every river flows towards the [[Ocean]]

You seep further and further into the ground, navigating a vast, unconfined aquifer. [[Discharge]] [[Seep further]]

(text-colour:#00FF4E)[You enter the roots and ascend the trunk of a great oak tree, making your way to the leaves.] (text-colour:cyan)[[[Transpirate]]]

You are now a droplet in the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!!!!!11 <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/60ud58v.gif" alt="pittsburgh" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> ... [[Evaporate]]

You have now entered (text-colour: black)[(text-style: "rumble")[deep]] groundwater storage. You flow through the aquifer towards a [[Well]]

(text-colour:#00FF4E)[The magnificent plant takes in CO2 and breathes out O2, along with water vapor (you).] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/qBH7g8V.gif" alt="tree" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (text-colour:cyan)[[[Evaporate]] ]

You runoff the impervious concrete surfaces of an urban area, bounding towards the sewer system. [[Enter the sewer]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/VNHz9m1.gif" alt="pittsburgh" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>

After making your way through the sewer system, you enter a treatment plant reservoir!!! <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/kc4mKMe.gif" alt="sewer" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[Time to be decontaminated!!!!!]]

<center>[[Coagulation]]

<center>[[Flocculation]]

<center>[[Sedimentation]]

<center>[[Filtration]]

<center>[[Disinfection]]

(live: 1s)[+Fluoride] (live: 2s)[+Ammonia] (live: 3s)[+Chloride] (live: 4s)[+Lime] <center>(live: 6s)[(text-style:"shudder")[disinfecting]] (live: 8s)[(go-to: "Enter the cleanwater tank")]

You are now in the City of Pittsburgh's clean drinking water supply!!!!!!!! <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/4bftXVr.gif" alt="tank" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[Sink]]

You are in the ocean. A water droplet spends an average of 3000 years in the ocean. Traveling up and down, North to South to East to West through the thermohaline cycle that regulates the entire planet through its currents of warm and cold water. The water droplets in the ocean control weather patterns and are essential for life on Earth. [[Enter the current]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/TKW7Nzq.gif" alt="thermohaline cycle" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>

[[WORLD TOUR!!!!!!!!!]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/eMyz2ty.gif" alt="oceanwater" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>

You flow out of the sink and into a small dish. [[Dog]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/9hzF8YY.gif" alt="sink" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>

(text-colour: black)[(text-style: "blur")[You feel yourself... being lifted.. ascending to the heavens, it's not evaporation this time......]] (live: 10s)[(go-to: "Sink")]

A slobbery dog laps you up! <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/6tVHrXc.gif" alt="dog" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (text-color:red)[[Gross!]]

Eventually, you get re-slobbered out onto the sidewalk. [[Evaporate]]

Now that it is springtime, you slowly begin to melt, percolating into the ground, recharging the underground aquifers! <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/tP26fQA.gif" alt="sprang" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[Percolate]]

(text-colour:#00FF4E)[After falling from the sky, you comb your way through lush grasses, entering the ground.] (text-colour:cyan)[[[Percolate]]] (text-colour:cyan)[[[Transpirate]] ] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/YKNNmOS.gif" alt="grass" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>

(if:$ocean > 1)[You have been circling the ocean for Five Thousand (5000) years. sorry to spoil your fun... [[Evaporate]]] (if: $ocean is 0 or $ocean is 1)[WORLD TOURRRR!!!! [[Gulf of Mexico]] [[Antarctica]] [[India]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/e8iiZUO.jpg" alt="worldtour" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>]

You become warmer and warmer as you enter the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/KGMSHrb.gif" alt="gom" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (live:3s)[there seems to be a hurricane approaching!!!](live:5s)[<center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/uULLONC.gif" alt="okay" width="50%" height="50%" ></center>] (live: 8s)[QUICK!!!! [[Enter the Gulf Stream]]]

You find yourself flowing next to icebergs. You've always wanted to see Antarctica! <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/dFhE5P7.gif" alt="gom" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (live:4s)[OMG HIIIII] (live:5s)[<center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/vBwRaoI.gif" alt="ant" width="75%" height="75%" ></center>] (live:9s)[(go-to: "Enter the Peru current")]

You find yourself flowing up alongside the Horn of Africa, in between Madagascar and the African Continent! [[Towards India]]

As you flow towards the North, you carry vital warmth to the higher latitudes. <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/AWrNEik.gif" alt="thermohaline cycle" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (live:5s)[Once you cool down, you become colder, saltier, and sink to the bottom of the ocean. [[Travel along the ocean floor]]]

(set: $ocean to it + 1) As you travel along the ocean floor, you see all kinds of strange wildlife that depend on you for survival. It is only now you realize how important you are. Crazy what 2 hydrogen + 1 oxygen can accomplish. <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/neSpJHy.gif" alt="floor" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[WORLD TOUR!!!!!!!!!]]

You flow out of the Arctic circumpolar stream, and bring cold currents up towards Peru, on the West coast of South America. You prepare to make the circulation towards Australia. <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/C8gpnSC.gif" alt="worldtour" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[Upwell]]

YOU CAN'T!!!!! You try to make your way towards the surface, but a huge mass of warm water BLOCKS you!!!!??? (live:4s)[It must be EL NIÑO...] (live:6s)[ Normally, trade winds blow west along the equator, bringing that warm warm water towards Australia. This means cold water can rise from the depths in a process called upwelling!!!] (live:10s)[[[ok i dont care???]]]

(set: $ocean to it + 1) During El Niño, trade winds weaken. Warm water is pushed back to the South American Coast. This affects worldwide climate patterns and YOU!!!!! BECAUSE this mass of warm water is not going anywhere, it means YOU can't rise to the surface like you want to! SEE: <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/lw0SCOY.gif" alt="elnino" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[Aw man...]]

(live:0s)(go-to:"WORLD TOUR!!!!!!!!!")

(set: $ocean to it + 1) During the summer months, the Indian Subcontinent heats up much faster than you do. This causes a low pressure system, and intense monsoons pour over the entire country!! <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/COe9HrL.gif" alt="floor" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> [[okay kind of cool]]

(live:0s)(go-to:"WORLD TOUR!!!!!!!!!")

(text-colour: #C819CD)[(text-style: "smear")[(text-colour: #4B0678)[Rain??? in the desert????? ]]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/DL4fSGx.gif" alt="desert" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (live:4s)[(go-to:"Desert2")]

(text-colour: #C819CD)[(text-style: "smear")[(text-colour: #4B0678)[It does rain in the desert sometimes!!! ]]] <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/6QGtDel.gif" alt="nm" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (live:3s)[(text-colour: #C819CD)[(text-style: "smear")[(text-colour: #4B0678)[The dry soil and the sparse vegetation of a desert means that the ground cannot absorb water as effectively, and much of the rain runs off the surface. ]]]] <center>(live:9s)[(text-colour: #FF8300)[(text-style: "smear")[(text-colour: #3C2904)[[Mudflow]] ]]]

The combination of fast moving water and a great volume of sediment and debris creates a devastating flow that surges down a slope with tremendous force. <center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/pow8UUN.gif" alt="mud" width="75%" height="75%" ></center> (live:6s)[Eventually, you [[Evaporate]] [[Percolate]] ]