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Where does the water in rivers come from? What causes rivers to flow? (Site 1)

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Where it comes from can depend on what river but generally from snow melt or rain fall in higher elevations.

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Most of the rivers comes precipitation runoff from the surrounding landscape. When rains falls on the land ,it’s either seeps into the ground or becomes runoff
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