It is a poor conductor of electricity, but it is a remarkable solvent. Because of the Water Cycle, water goes through many changes or transformations, and as a result gets cleaned naturally. In fact, the water that we use today is the same water that dinosaurs drank 65 million years ago. It can transform itself to liquid through condensation . Liquid water is found in oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, as well as in the ground.
Liquid water becomes a gas through evaporation , when subjected to heating.
When very cold, the liquid water molecules slow down their movement, and through freezing, slowly become a solid, or ice and snow. Solid water can also become a gas through a process called sublimation . Of course, when solid water becomes liquid, this is called melting . Water also has a powerful surface tension . This is the tendancy for water molecules to stick tightly together very well.