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Stormwater is, unfortunately, not a concept with which most citizens have a high degree of familiarity, despite considerable lifelong exposure to its presence and effects. While most individuals from a very young age can recognize and differentiate between many types of precipitation (even toddlers can tell whether it's raining, snowing, sleeting or hailing), few persons of any age display adequate knowledge when it comes to understanding what happens to this precipitation once it reaches the ground. And, even more unfortunately, among those who do possess an adequate knowledge base about what happens to this water, there are a significant number who don't care. Stormwater runoff, after all, is someone else's problem, isn't it?