When I go to the beach I see how dirty the water is there. I hesitate to swim in it. Lake Erie is a beautiful lake when it is not so dirty, and we should try and preserve it. If we don’t it will be become so polluted that it will be considered dead, this happened in the 1960s due to all the factories dumping waste in to the Lake. It was literally a dumping ground and it even caught on fire a few times due to the toxic wastes.
Cause and Effect Of The Pollution of Lake Huron Edward Holbrook March 10, 2012 ENG115 Professor McGeehan The Pollution of Lake Huron Lake Huron is the second largest of the Great Lakes with a surface area of 23,000 square miles but is only 3rd largest by volume with 850 cubic miles of water. It has an average depth of 195 feet and has a maximum depth of 750 feet, making it the third largest fresh water lake in the world. As you can see in the picture below, Lake Huron’s waters and shores are filled with beauty and are thriving with life. All of which are being jeopardized by pollution. The pollution of Lake Huron is damaging its ecosystem and the local economy and needs to be cleaned up.
A site can only go through fracking 18 times. That means for each site 72 trillion gallons of water are used and 360 billion gallons of chemical. A majority of the water used during fracking we will never be able to use again. As of how fracking is done now, I see it as a more negative things then positive. Maybe in years to come we can find a new and less harmful way to get natural
Water is the one of the basic needs of every living thing on earth. It is needed for survival and without clean water, the chances for survival greatly diminish. For many people, the main source of water used for numerous activities including drinking, cooking, and cleaning comes from the municipal water supply though the faucets in the home. This experiment used tap water as well as bottled water as the water sources for this experiment. This experiment was completed with the purpose of testing and discovering the effects different contaminants have on water and to hypothesize the possible effects contaminated water could have on the human body based on research and readings of different scholarly sources.
Water Quality and Contamination Report 1 Schrita Scott Water Quality and Contamination SCI207: Dependence of Man on the Environment Instructor Carrie Myers February 25, 2014 Water Quality and Contamination Report 2 Water Quality and Contamination Introduction: When it comes to water quality and contamination, first and foremost ground water is present below the surface in porous rocks and is prone to contamination by natural and human activities. Large amounts of chemicals like soap, detergents, fertilizers, pesticides, and pharmaceutical are often times discharged into fresh water aquifers almost daily. These contaminants leak into the soil in which it then dissolves into ground water. Different contaminants have different rates of solubility and degradation once they reach the underground water table, either by simple flow or by the downward movement of rain water. The ground water may become contaminated with both organic and inorganic substances which may include heavy metals like Cadmium, Chromium and Nickel, etc.
The ozone protects us from the majority of the harmful rays from the sun and it shields us from most of the sun’s heat. When we first found the oil sands they were covered with trees, shrubs and other plant life, to get to the oil we had to clear-cut. The clear-cutting destroys many habitats of animals. When an animal looses it’s habitat it either dies or it runs to the city, where it can be a potential threat. When we refine or even dig up oil sands we produce harmful chemicals.
Beach closures have also been more frequent being something many families, and residents have once enjoyed. These toxic chemicals have been found in fish and wildlife, which have been deposited into the lake by manufacturing sites and other industrial companies. (Glutting, 2003)Runoff pollution, pollution that comes from a single location has also added to the lake’s devastation. Storm water, irrigation runoffs, sediments, fertilizers, and fecal matter deposits, are some of the discharges contributed by sewage treatment plants. These runoffs have contributed to the beach closures, and the unsustainable condition of biological life in the lake.
The United States consumes roughly 600 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year while we only produce about 500 billion cubic meters. ANWR could hold trillions of cubic meters of uncovered natural gas. North America is said to contain 3 percent of the world’s natural gas (naturalgas.org). Natural gas has been discovered in the north Alaskan region but it has been said that it is only the tip of the iceberg and that there is much more to be found. According to a spokesman there is some eight billion cubic feet of natural gas is drawn from existing fields in the ANWR every single day that is re-injected into the ground because there is no pipeline to carry the gas to the United States or Canada (Nationalgeographic.com).
Believe it or not we are all a witness of watching someone litter, or us littering. From planktons, to dolphins to birds can be affected by a simple oil spill in the ocean and especially in a close area like the Persian Gulf can cause great damage. When oil is spilled, toxins in the water spike and will shock the bodily systems of the animals living there, causing a massive amount of death and leading to endangerment. Before disaster had struck in 1991, the Persian gulf has beautiful clean beaches, filled with marine life. Beautiful clear, lushes water.
Areas around the world known as “Dead Zones” are being reported as “areas so low in oxygen that fish and other sea life cannot survive (Oceans Where Fish Choke. November 30, 2010).” These areas are accosted with highly populated coastal areas that are being overfished and have rich nutrient run off coming from land causing massive decline in phytoplankton. Biological Oceanographers worldwide study dead fish that continue to surface on shore by searching for a solution to the problem. Many believe the zones are created due to climate change; however, it is more logical that the constant drain off of the high nutrients is feeding the dilemma. Low oxygen levels increase stress on fish.