In hydrology, interflow is the lateral movement of water in the unsaturated zone, or vadose zone, that first returns to the surface or enters a stream prior to becoming groundwater. Interflow is sometimes used interchangeably with throughflow; however, throughflow is specifically the subcomponent of interflow that returns to the surface, as overla... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interflow
(from the article `runoff`) in hydrology, quantity of water discharged in surface streams. Runoff includes not only the waters that travel over the land surface and through ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/28
Shallow infiltration to the soil, from where it may infiltrate vertically to an aquifer, move horizontally to a watercourse or be stored and subsequently evaporated. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20453