Wetland Restoration Wetlands are a key part of many ecosystems that benefit the environment in several ways. Sometimes referred to as “the kidneys of the landscape” wetlands act as a filter. They can filter out naturally occurring sediment as well as contaminants like fertilizer runoff or chemical spills. Wetlands also replace groundwater and in times of flooding can take on additional water to prevent flood damages. Wetlands are not only beneficial for water filtering and flooding; they also provide a unique ecosystem that many species rely on for survival.
There are many layers to the Five Points are colored by the groups and individuals that struggled to survive and establish their place in the changing scope of New York. As author Tyler Anbinder points out in his book Five Points, the area’s history has been exaggerated to a large extent due to many focusing solely on the reports found in the press (2001, p. 3). The population that made up the Five Points in the early 1800’s sported immigrants, who made up a quarter of the inhabitants, while approximately fifteen percent was African-American. These individuals worked in a variety of trades, such as woodworking, stone masons and tailors while the larger portion did manual labor jobs. Some of the more prominent tradesmen owned their owned stores or shops (Anbinder, 2001, p. 15-16).
Wetlands can only handle so much of these pollutants, and with the major habitat loss that has completely changed the dynamics of these once seasonal wetlands, can only limit the ability for these wetlands to filter as much of the pollution as possible. There are not enough wetlands in Roseville anymore to have any significant affect to dilute the polluted water and clean it properly for the wetlands to sustain healthy ecosystems. Wetlands are crucial for water, because they filter out the harmful waterborne pollutants and damaging nutrients before they can reach rivers, streams, and lakes. (EPA 2008) We drink from these places and have a responsibility to keep these wetlands intact to ensure they work as they are supposed to. With the recent surge of construction all over Roseville, especially along Route 65, many of the important wetlands have been replaced by buildings, and roads that are pollution sources producing runoff that flows directly into the remaining wetland habitat.
Water is considered an essential element for the human being, animals, plants and all other creatures on the earth. Shortage of water resulted through various reasons that can be outlined as follows: Firstly, water passing from its sources across several borders supplying different nations through all over the planet and the shortage sometimes could be due to hard access caused by wars. Secondly, the population increase and water need too which cause shortage of water as the available natural source is not enough.Thirdly , the abuse of pure water by irresponsible personnel when being used in irrigation and for industrial use.This paper will highlight some important reasons for water shortage and particularly concentrate on the results of upgrading water securingalternate resources. One of the main reasons for water shortage is overpopulation. The high increase of population led to the need of expansion of the existing facilities and building, development of new shelters and infrastructure facilities to accommodate the expected of huge number of population, this fact consume a high percentage of the available water in the world.
Migratory birds like the water fowl have the potential to spread the resistance bacteria over a large area, like water sources, and our soil. This spreads it to other species and makes then antibiotic resistant to the different bacteria’s. They also found that in the pre-antibiotic age that there were strains of antibiotic resistance gene’s been present before the widespread distribution of antibiotics. So this tells us that it can occur naturally in nature. It also tells us that it is important in nature.
The result was poor farmland and in turn, the poverty of the farmers wasn’t completely solved. But the Dam didn’t bring just negatives to play; it also had significant positive effects. For one, the government hoped to reclaim a large amount of land, and the Dam itself would serve as an electricity producer, converting water to energy. Preventing the damage from the floods was a main issue that the Dam was to solve, and increasing agricultural production due to a change in
Water as one of the most valuable resources of our planet and for us to obtain fresh water source without contamination is complex in many ways. Filtering technologies has always been expensive and ignored by worldwide scientists. In many developing countries being able to receive clean and sanitized water would be a factor in surviving or not. Without further development in more inexpensive filtering technology, third world countries would continue to suffer from constant diarrhea and possibly facing death. Children are often the easiest target due to their low immune system and after drinking contaminated water; their main concern would be survival.
The extent of ecological damage means that it takes decades for an ecosystem affected by the industry to heal. This water is then packaged in bottles made of various plastics. Since plastics do not biodegrade easily, these bottles, unless disposed of properly, find their way to land fills, or oceanic garbage patches. Scientific estimates suggest that some of the bottles will remain in these landfills and oceanic patches for close to a thousand years. As the plastics gradually degrade, chemicals leach into the soil and wind up in the water table.
In my own neighborhood, I’ve seen home sellers cleaning up the block so their property, as well as the neighborhood, looked nice. This littering problem can also affect the future environment. Soil cannot decompose plastics, and trash products such as cigarette butts have harmful chemicals that affect the soil. Wind carries the bottles, cans, and plastics, and they can end up in rivers, streams, and oceans close by. This is harmful to sea animals, whose homes are unfortunately filled with this nonsense.
The Environmental Engineering track interests me the most due to events which occur around me. Some of which are; the cholera endemic I witnessed in 2013, flooding due to inefficient drainage systems, artificial scarcity of crops owing to lack of functional irrigation schemes, illegal dumping of waste into canals, air and water pollution and the absence of municipal waste collection systems. All these are a few of the challenges I encounter regularly and I felt the need to play a part in changing them. My interest in knowing how to create a sustainable environment while costing the planet minimal resources is motivated by these societal issues and environmental engineers are at the forefront of solving these challenges. I want to contribute my skills to provide safe and clean drinking water for households thereby cutting down the time women and children spend collecting water from long distances, resourcefully alleviate the waste management issues surrounding me and putting an end to outbreaks of water-related epidemics.