Moreover, environmental features in the Mitta Mitta river is playing a crucial role in terms of its water. Environmental features are those installations which alter the environment and includes environmental asset. The environmental features in every river catchment is contrast, for example Mitta Mitta river features is different with Macquarie river features. In addition, environmental assets in the Mitta Mitta river include provide habitats for high priority threatened native fish such as Macquarie perch, Murray cod, golden perch and flat-headed galaxias. Other high priority species found along the Mitta Mitta system include spotted tree frogs and the alpine spiny crayfish, in the upper Snowy Creek catchment. Another environmental assets are Wetlands, National Park, Gorges. Dams include Hume and Dartmouth dams, operating storages, 14 weirs, 13 locks, barrages at the Lower Lakes, and water management structures at …show more content…
The Mitta Mitta river faced current threats for its system (water flows). One of the threats is that the ecosystem was in poor health. This condition is quite dangerous for ecosystem living around the Mitta Mitta river. It could affect animals around the river and other biota that living under the river.
The Mitta Mitta river has a large cost of its construction and the operation of the scheme to maintain it. However, it also has benefits to get return money of the investment. These benefits overwhelmingly beneficial to society and the local councils or regional water authorities, also it makes government’s budget to spend for the river maintenance decreases. Many economic activities can be done that directly attributed to the flow of water that worth as an economical value. One of the activity that directly attributed to the Mitta Mitta river is primarily agricultural and used for beef production. The agricultural and beef production is using large area of freehold land for around 100
When I started to reading this book, I do not imagine what it was about .I am an international student, and I have been living in the U.S for a short time , so many of the issues regarding of American history are new for me. The Erie Canal was part of the unknown subjects. It has been interesting to know, and learned that the Americans have had intension of shaping and preserve its history. And great historians, they would give out even the smallest details that helped make this nation what it is today.
In the chapter the “Rainy River” of the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien conveys a deep moral conflict between fleeing the war to go to Canada versus staying and fighting in a war that he does not support. O’Brien is an educated man, a full time law student at Harvard and a liberal person who sees war as a pointless activity for dimwitted, war hungry men. His status makes him naive to the fact that he will be drafted into the war and thus when he receives his draft notice, he is shocked. Furthermore, his anti-war sentiments are thoroughly projected, and he unravels into a moral dilemma between finding freedom in Canada or standing his ground and fighting. An image of a rainy river marking the border between Minnesota and Canada is representative of this chapter because it reflects O’Brien’s moral division between finding freedom in Canada or standing his ground and fighting in the Vietnam war.
In the 1898 mayoral election, Frederick Eaton was elected as mayor of Los Angeles; and appointed his associate, William Mulholland- the superintendent of the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Eaton and Mulholland envisioned a region of Los Angeles that would make Los Angeles become the turn of the century. The limiting factor of that regions growth was water supply. Eaton and Mulholland realized that the Owens Valley had a large amount of runoff from the Sierra Nevada, and a gravity-fed aqueduct that could deliver the Owens water to Los Angeles. During the early 1900’s the United States Bureau of Reclamation made plans to build an irrigation system to help the farmers of the Owens Valley. By 1905, through purchases, and alleged intimidation and bribery, Los Angeles purchased enough water rights to enable construction of the aqueduct.
Most of the rivers are the one being used by large communities like drinking water supply and for the farmers in their produce. The State of Department put together a commission of knowledgeable people and carried out an investigation about the risk and consequences of this project. Some of the conclusion about the spills were, for example, that: “A million of gallons of tar soil war poured into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan… 40 miles of this river still are contaminated to this day”. Another example of spills affecting communities, is the one in 2013, caused by a twenty foot crack in a pipeline, causing a huge spill of oil, damaging the residential neighborhoods and the Lake Conway in Arkansas. This spills and oil “accidents” are affecting not only the lives of people but also the wildlife, the ecosystems and the quality of air and water
A population graph has been done and it has showed that the deer population went up when the hunting of mountain lions was allowed. A secchi disk test was tested on all rivers and it showed that only Missterssippi river had too much sediment. A secchi disk is an instrument that measure how polluted the water is with sediment. A graph has been done on water temperatures and it showed that the upper and lower Missterssippi river had higher temperatures than other rivers. Mountain lions control the population of the deer by eating or hunting the weak and old deer. The mountain lions also help keeping the overall population healthier.The secchi disk is a disk with a colorful black and white pattern that has a colored string attached to it. In order to measure how polluted the water is, you have to follow a couple steps. First, you lower down the secchi disk by the string. The string has a separation of white and black. You lower it down until you reached the point where you can’t see it. Then you pinch the part of the string that has made direct contact with the surface of the water and you raise up the secchi disk. If the part you pinched is within the white part of the string, the water is healthy and clear. If the part you pinched is within the black part of the string, the water is unhealthy and dirty. How can this can contribute to the deaths of fish? Ever since mountain lion hunting was allowed, the mountain lion population dropped and the deer population went up. Mountain lions eat deer as prey and since there are fewer mountain lions to hunt them down, the deer population would go up higher. Since there was too many deer in the park, the deer overgrazed the plants. Now that plants are destroyed by the overpopulation of deer, runoff can go through without restriction, carrying sediment with it much faster. It also creates erosion. Erosion
In today’s civil society, we are taught to show compassion and tolerance towards one other, yet the media portrays society in a different perspective, as being intolerant. In the book The Other Side of the River, writer Alex Kotlowitz reflects on the story of a young black male whose lifeless body was found in the St. Joseph river of Michigan. In this story, Kotlowitz reflects on two communities that are opposite from the other in regards to ethnic background and financial well-being, yet both appear to share the same lack of tolerance towards the other. There is a paragraph were Kotlowitz writes,
Looking at the dam’s environmental harm specifically, it is clear that this project should immediately cause. "Environmentalists warn that sewage will back up and destroy the precious habitats for river dolphins, giant pandas and other rare animals.
A draft is a form of a social obligations that is just not an ordinary obligation, but it is a legal one. The government is behind it which means that the government has the right to draft you into war whether you agree with it or not. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien was trapped between the sword and the wall on the decision of going to war or escaping the draft by going to Canada. He had to choose whether or not to risk his life for the sake of his country and family. Throughout the chapter entitled “On the Rainy River” Tim O’Brien tells us the readers how hard was for him to make a decision of whether to go or not. Tim O’Brien puts us on his position by asking rhetorical questions such as “What would you do?” “Would
The role of relationship you have with other people often has direct influence on the individual choices and belief in the life. In the short story “on the rainy river”, the author Tim O’Brien inform us about his experiences and how his interacted with a single person had effected his life so could understand himself. It is hard for anyone to be dependent on just his believes and own personal experience, when there are so many people with different belief to influence you choices and have the right choices for you self. Occasionally taking experience and knowledge of other people to help you understand and build from them your own identity and choices in life.
The third way that humans affect the endangered animal would be pollution to the seas. Every time someone throws a bottle or dirty water into the sea, they are damaging every sea creature as it may get caught and hurt the animal or it may make the sea creature get a disease or an infection therefore killing the animal. The Vaquita may catch a disease and that may kill the animal or it may be that the Vaquita eats an animal that has caught a disease from pollution, it also may contaminate water, making the water unliveable to survive in.
Mother nature has taken the biggest beating of all when it come to pollution. It seems that we just dump our trash wherever we want. We don’t see the true impact these actions have on our environment until it 's too late. Once we realize what 's been done the damage has already been done, it 's irreversible. The Citarum River Basin located in Indonesia has suffered the most. Textile factories located along the coast have dumped toxic waste in the the river causing illnesses and death, we need to clean up the Citarum River. With all this The Citarum River has to return to a place where people feel safe.
Some of the species being threatened by pollution include: dolphins, porpoises, penguins, sharks, and polar bears. B. Humans are also being affected. 1. Clean water is needed for good human and animal health, but as DoSomething.org states, over 1 billion people worldwide don’t have a means of getting clean drinking water, an... ... middle of paper ... ...
We also often get our drinking water from lakes and rivers and with healthier water systems come a healthier food chain. This is because all animals and plants depend upon the water on the earth. There is a connection between the changes in fish habitations and the composition of species in these habitats (Komatsu, Fukushima, and Harasawa, 2007), and healthy water systems. Biodiversity is threatened by the changes happening in climates largely with loss of ideal habitats. Sea levels and temperatures rise, and with this relocation of plants, animals, and humans will be forced
All ecosystems are important to all life, regardless of how big the particular ecosystem is. Freshwater aquatic ecosystems account for a minority of global aquatic ecosystems, with most being saltwater, but their health is critical to the planet and to human life. Ecosystems depend on all parts to work the way they are supposed to. If one part of the ecosystem goes away, whether it be through death or through emigration, then the whole ecosystem can suffer as a result. For example, the amount of plants available changes the amounts of nutrients available, and the number of predators available changes the amounts of prey and therefore plants available. Small changes can have big effects. Overall, the factors that determine the health and sustainability of an aquatic ecosystem include the energy flow, nutrient cycling, biodiversity and interactions among all the components of the ecosystem.
This report discusses the factors that affected Pasig River’s aquatic life and solutions to overcome this frightening catastrophe.