To explain further, what stops lakes from simply seeping into the dirt, and thus vanishing? As a follow up question, what stops water from getting evaporated, and then the clouds move somewhere else and rain, thus depriving the lake of the water it lost?
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Nothing, really. All lakes lose water to evaporation, and all lakes exchange water with the surrounding groundwater. Lakes persist where the rate of rainfall and runoff into the lake is greater than the rate of evapration and seepage out of it.
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