Assignment #3.1 “Determining Causes and Effects-Draft Version” “Determining the Causes and Effects of Water Pollution in Lake Huron” By: Maricel N. Johnson November 28, 2012 Eng 115 (Tuesday Class) Professor: Michael Hunter Lake Huron is the third largest of the lakes with 3,540 feet of water, with it’s average depth is 195 feet and with maximum depth of 750 feet. The Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, Erie, Ontario, Superior and Huron are our largest freshwater system. Lake Huron contains many wildlife and is in danger of being polluted. This pollution is harmful to fish, wildlife animals, and to humans of the region. Determining the cause and effects of water pollution in Lake Huron contributes to finding solutions for cleaning up our waterways and improving public health.
It polluted the whole river as the chemicals flowed down the river Rhine. It was one of the major sources of water that flowed through four major countries of Europe. Now the contaminated water could not be used by these people. The chemicals killed many species in water. Dead fishes could be seen floating on water.
Hayes argued, “the impacts of atrazine on amphibians and on wildlife in general are potentially devastating” (Hayes et al. 4). Atrazine causes disease and deformities and is a threat to both humans and wildlife. Atrazine is the most common pesticide contaminant of ground and surface water that can spread a half million pounds of atrazine more than 1,000 km from the point of application via rainfall (Hayes et al. 1).
SCI/275 Water Resource Challenges Provide at least three freshwater and three ocean water resource challenges by filling in the following table. Then, respond to the question that follows: Freshwater Resource Challenge Description Climate Change Global warming dries up the water supply. Water Pollution Human dumping of sewage, or other population in the water supply. Making it undrinkable. Irrigated Soil Irrigating water over and over again, until it is overused.
Another problem is trash lifted by the tsunami waters from anywhere and everywhere, including debris from the earthquake disaster, has also been released and swept out to the ocean. The ocean’s waves and currents distribute the trash, along with the nuclear waste, throughout the waters, polluting the environment, near and far. Along with the physical devastation of getting infrastructure usable again, Japan is faced with environmental issues and daunting health concerns that must be improved, if not solved. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is one of the largest and oldest plants in the world existing for over 40 years now. It is now facing great threat due to the recent natural disasters.
Recent scientific studies have found that the fish developed gross deformities such as extra fins, or suffered from retarded development. Wildlife was also affected as thousands of birds and otters were killed as a direct result of the spill. When oil sticks to a bird's feathers, it causes them to mat and separate, impairing waterproofing and exposing the animal's sensitive skin to extremes temperatures. This led to many oil-soaked birds losing
At the same time, supplies water to Kiev's 2.4 million residents. This caused a major problem to the people as now; their drinking water is contaminated with radioactive materials. Other than that, the radioactivity in the seas, lakes and rivers became a threat to aquatic life. Thankfully, the groundwater was slightly affected because the radioactive material fortunately decayed before it could reach the groundwater supplies. Four kilometers of pine trees turned reddish-brown after the accident.
Air pollution from government facilities, such as the Hanford nuclear testing facility, is causing harmful effects to people and the environment (OEM 1). Some side effects are damage to local wildlife, cardiovascular health problems and global warming (OEM). According to the American Lung Association, “The human toll is profound. They cited one 2010 study that estimated fine particles (PM2.5) contribute to 223,000 deaths from lung cancer worldwide.” (ALA, Par. 3).
The four countries under this treaty are the U.S.,Japan, Great Britain and Russia. Throughout the 1750’s and 1911, a single fur coat could bring in 1,125 dollars. Although most of the poaching of sea otters has subsided, other factors have come into play (Fernandez, James). Pollution of kelp forests and oil spills are extreme threats to sea otters. Since the sea otter spends most of its life in the water, thousands are killed by oil spills.
In today’s society, the environmental issues that appear on television the most include overpopulation, air pollution, climate change, and water pollution. In this essay, I would like to focus on an aspect of water pollution that has been overlooked by the general public. This lurking environmental danger in the ocean is called a Dead Zone. In Tom Levitt’s article for CNN, Levitt writes: “Aquatic "dead zones" are a tragic illustration of human beings' negative impact on the world's oceans. They are areas so overloaded with pollutants that they have difficulty sustaining any life.” Dead Zones are created by fertilizer and pollution run off from our very own backyards.