Choose one of the water management concerns listed below and give an example of where this is happening. Please cite your source and change the heading of your post to show which concern you are discussing. Make sure to also show how this impacts the water cycle.
a. withdrawing large quantities from streams, lakes, and aquifers.
b. increasing runoff by clearing vegetation from the land.
c. altering weather patterns by clearing vegetation.
d. increasing flooding by disturbing natural flood controls.

The water cycle is influenced by seasonal-climatic fluctuations and human activity. Water withdrawal is one of the human activities that most seriously affect the amount of water in lakes and aquifers by reducing water storage, thereby altering the flow in streams, lakes and wetlands. Concerning this situation, the state of Minnesota incorporated 1- the use of a US database (State Water Use Database, SWUD) with useful water use information on withdrawals and consumptive uses and 2- an index based on the sum of permitted water withdrawal from surface and groundwater. This index estimates the use of water as a percent of the surface water runoff to define and predict the vulnerability of lakes, using data from 54 stream gages recorded from 1988-2007. The catchment scores are scaled from 0 to 100 depending on the percent of runoff used.