Sabrina King
Ms. Goldberg
Freshman Rhetoric
16 October 2014
A Waterless Earth
What do you think of when you hear the term “dirty water”? The term “dirty water” is primarily associated with developing countries, Africa being an example.. As of now, us Americans can assume that since we are a first world country, we will always have a basic necessity- clean water.
Imagine going a day without water. Not bathing, not brushing your teeth and drinking little clean water. You wouldn 't survive the day healthy because water is essential to all life. The Earth is filled with many valuable resources. The problem with these valuable resources is that they are limited. In my point of view, the ocean is the earths most important resource. But the ocean
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Oceans generate ½ the oxygen people breath. Air pollution is responsible for 33% of the toxic contaminants that end up in oceans and coastal waters. When factories produce smoke, the smoke ends up being trapped in the ocean, contributing to the dead spots. In the ocean, there are many dead spots or dead zones, in which life cannot survive there; this is due to the lack of oxygen. Although we can clean these dead spots, we choose not to. Think of the biggest dump you 've ever seen, filled with all sorts of bottles and garbage. In the oceans there is the biggest landfill, about the double size of texas. It lays by california, a polluted state. California is a polluted state because of how big it is. Another factor that plays into california 's pollution, is the easy access to water because most of the population of california is on the coast. Fish get trapped in the garbage so close to the shore, and die. When I was snorkeling in St. Thomas, the ocean was crystal clear, and not any pieces of garbage in sight. this is because of the stricter laws they have on littering. Soon because of the ocean currents, this one beautiful non littered ocean will be disgusting and covered by
Water has become a very controversial issue in the United States and around the world. As populations increase and resources decrease, the way we use our resources and keep populations safe become more and more important. Throughout the world there are nearly 1.1 billion people who do not have access the clean drinking water. 5 Most of these 1.1 billion people are located in poor areas and do not have the financial means to build the infrastructures needed to provide water to the citizens of their country. 5 Drinking water is an essential part of our everyday life. People must have water to survive, but it must be clean and safe to consume.
Water pollution has had devastating effects on the environment, which include irreversible effects on the oceans ecosystem. People often underestimate the importance of the ocean. They don’t realize how much damage pollution has caused to the ocean and the thousands of creatures that inhabit it. Earth is a huge place, but resources are actually very limited and will not last forever unless there is a balance. We must protect the resources we have in order for them to last into the next generation.
The article indicates that the influences of oceans pollution that made by humans and caused by a phenomenon called “dead zones”. First of all, there is a great amount of plastic in the ocean which causes massive consequences for animals of the entire marine food web. On the other hand, “Dead zone” also affect Earth’s oceans. “Dead zones” can formed by many causes, such as natural causes, climate change, along human activities and industrial waste. These is a national problem and humans need to have some regulatory mechanisms. Therefore, it can helps the “dead zones” reduced. The author mentions that the US Environmental
While a beautiful sunset on the beach can be astounding, a spectacular scene is not the only benefit oceans provide. Without the oceans, we would not have adequate amounts of oxygen to breathe or enough protein to eat. The Earth's climate would not be inhabitable for human beings and many animals. The oceans supply medicines, food and drinking water which arise from ocean processes. Out of the five oceans, the Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest and deepest ocean. It spreads over an area of 165.2 million square kilometers. More than 25,000 islands float within the Pacific. Within the Pacific Ocean lies an unusual island, an island that is more than twice the size of Texas and is earth’s largest landfill, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (McLendon). Society is unaware that the excess use of plastic and other non-biodegradable materials has ended up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is the main source of ocean pollution. The solutions, ranging from manual clean-up to eliminating any further obliteration to the Garbage Patch, will reduce the amount of effluence the world has to endure.
I felt like an empty glass of water. No water. No half-empty or half-full. there was nothing left to give, No tears left to be cried. Behind closed doors of my home, My mom and dad were the only ones that made me feel happy, I had fun with them, but I heard the lies in my thoughts, I was telling myself that that wasn't “cool” that the kids from my high school, my friends, those were the ones to impress, their opinion of me was the most important .
Summary: Without water, there is no way that life would be sustainable on this planet. It is without a doubt our most valuable resource.
Oceans are such so vast that people underestimate the impact their actions —seeming so insignificant— have on them. Humans have by and large taken the oceans for granted; not considering how important a healthy ocean is to our survival. A popular mind-set is that the oceans are a bottomless supply of fish, natural resources, and an infinite waste dump. There are myriad reasons why the oceans should be saved and the most obvious one is marine life. With 71% of the Earth being covered by water, it is obvious that sea creatures are predominant form of life, making up 80% of the species of life on Earth. However, as important as marine life is, that is not the only reason why saving the oceans is crucial. The ocean floor provides natural resources such as, oil, natural gas, petroleum, minerals, medications, and ingredients for foods and products. The economic benefits of the oceans are huge and significant, as well. Fishing and fish products have provided employment to 38 million people and have generated about $124 billion in economic benefits. However, oceans are on the verge of crisis, marine life, natural resources, transportation, the economy, and important ingredients are at risk due to overfishing, pollution, and acidification. Thus, in this essay I will argue that, oceans are not impervious to human activity and threatening the health of the ocean threatens the health of humanity, since oceans key to our survival.
Water is the most vital part of life. Water is needed from humans, to plants and other organisms, and to do basically everything. Water allows our bodily functions to work and to remove waste from our bodies. Plants need water to grow, and humans need plants to gr...
According to CQ Researcher’s Cooper “More than a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and their numbers are growing”(Water Shortage). Is it fair that so many people must go without water while thousands of gallons are wasted here in the United States? Cooper in addition commented that “unlike the vast majority of natural resources water often is seen as a free commodity like the air we breathe” (Water Shortage). Without seeing water as something worth conserving, we literally pour away our most valuable resource. We can not afford this; water shortages already ravage the majority of the world: “If per-capita water consumption continues to rise at current rates, humans will take more than 90 percent of all available fresh water by 2025, leaving only 10 percent of the earth’s fresh water for all animals and plants on the planet” (Cooper, Water Shortage). Even the water that is available to humans is often not clean enough to safely drink: “Outbreaks of cholera and other waterborne diseases kill 10 million people each year” (Cooper, Water Quality). Cooper acknowledged that“1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water...
According to “Cruise Ship Pollution”, A 3,000- passenger cruise ship generates 210,000 gallons of sewage, 25,000 gallons of oily bilge water, and diesel emissions equivalent to thousands of automobiles.(www.beachapedia.org/Cruise_Ship_Pollution).If humans had the ability to breathe underwater, then we’d be able to travel long distances overseas instead of having to rely on cruise ship. This would decrease the pollution to the oceans by a lot. California Coastal states,” In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences estimated that ocean-based sources, such as cargo ships and cruise liners had dumped 14 billion pounds of garbage into the ocean.”(www.coastal .ca.org/publiced/marinedebris.html) If we could independently travel the oceans to get to foreign countries without relying on heavily polluting ships, then the earth would have cleaner waters. Cruise ships wouldn’t be obsolete due to the large predators in the ocean. Less pollution would lead to a much cleaner environment for the aquaculture. The ability to breathe underwater would lead to a decrease in the use of passenger ships, but would ultimately lead to a cleaner ocean and a cleaner environment for the
As of this year, nearly 1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water and 2.6 billion live without adequate water sanitation. The McDonald's down the street, however, will sell you a 1/3 pounder burger for only 150 gallons. Changes in lifestyle can easily reduce this number and help not only save water, but money as well. Currently, with our diminishing water supply, one of the main goals of humanitarian organizations is ensuring that everyone has the right and equality to water. With global access to water, it reduces the responsibility for political tension between countries fighting to literally stay alive.
When looking at Earth from space it is immersed in blue, that is because water covers about 75 percent of Earth’s surface. Water is a necessity to sustain life on Earth, which sets Earth apart from other planets in our solar system. Water is the only substance that can occur naturally and change states from a liquid, solid, and gas. Therefore, Earth’s water is constantly moving from these states in the ocean, land, and to the atmosphere. The presence of water on, in, and above the Earth is known as the water cycle.
Less than 1% of the water supply on earth can be used as drinking water.
“When rain falls to the ground, the water does not stop moving. Some of it flows along the land surface to streams or lakes, some is used by plants. Some evaporates and returns to the atmosphere. And some seeps underground, into pores between sand, clay and rock formations called aquifers. Water moves through aquifers much like a glass of water poured onto a pile of sand.”(EPA, 2014) Human activities, whether purposefully or accidentally, such as farming, fracking, oil spills, chemical spills can all act like rain water and flow into and contaminate the aquifers which we rely on for clean drinking water.
Water is an irreplaceable natural resource on this earth which comprises marine, estuarine, fresh water (river and lakes), ground water across coastal and inland areas. Even though there is huge water resource in this world, about 97% of water is salt water (marine) only 3% is fresh water. And in this small fraction of fresh water a major part is in the form of ice in polar region. So just 0.003% is in the form of ground water and surface water which we can use.