The Coorong National Park is a protected area located in South Australia 156kms southeast of Adelaide. (See Figure 1) It forms part of the Murray Darling river system and is situated close by to Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert. The Coorong stretches for more than 130kms and protects many saltwater lagoons of which are sheltered from the pounding surf of the Southern Ocean, by the sand dunes of the Younghusband Peninsula. The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth all form part of a unique wetland environment, consisting of 23 different wetland types ranging from freshwater to hypersaline, dense vegetation to open water and temporary to permanently inundated land. These features contribute to the Coorong, area meeting 8 of the 9 criteria for classification as a ‘Ramsar Wetland’ (See Appendix 1) The Coorong area is classified as a Mediterranean Warm biome with a Mediterranean climate featuring temperatures ranging …show more content…
Each of these issues has a deeper effect on the overall health of the Coorong environment, meaning the entire environment suffers due to one problem.
The system on a whole has been affected as the surrounding Coorong and Lower Lakes areas are encountering declining environmental conditions including: degradation of swamps, receding riverbanks and irrigation banks, disruption of irrigation usage and the irregularity of ferry services. These environmental issues have an effect on the provision of portable water to Adelaide and regional towns who rely on this water source. This means the government is having to find other sources of water so that it can be provided to Adelaide and the regional towns, putting extra stress on the
Katmai National Park and Preserve encompasses 3,674,529.68 acres of land. It would fit in the state of Pennsylvania about eight times. Katmai National Park and Preserve is located on the northern tip of the Alaskan Peninsula and is made up of six active volcanoes and the surrounding forests, lakes, and mountains. Maybe the most well known of the volcanoes are Novarupta and Mount Katmai, famous for their eruption in 1912.
Water is the most relied upon resource on earth and if it disappeared life could not and would not exist on this planet. So if one of our main sources of water in South Australia, The Murray Darling-Basin, becomes unusable then we would need to find the problem and do everything possible to stop it or counteract it. This report investigates on salinity in the Murray Darling-Basin, using the issue question “Is there enough being done to counteract the effects of salinity in the Murray?” as the focus. Salinity is a key significant environmental challenge which the Murray faces and if left unmanaged it could cause serious implications for water quality, plant growth, biodiversity, land productivity, infrastructure and could lead to a loss of a water source that’s critical to human needs. In this investigation five different aspects of this salinity issue are presented and these aspects include what Salinity is and how it has become an issue, what the effects are, how salinity affects the rest of Australia, what can be done and is anyone doing anything and finally what the visions are for the future of the Murray and its salinity levels.
Do you want to hear about the first national park that is the first and only dedicated to a president? Theodore Roosevelt National Park was established in 1947. The Mountains are over 55 million years old. The badlands of Theodore Roosevelt national park is dry with occasional monsoon showers. The park is located in Medora, North Dakota, and is home to some amazing animals including wild horses, reptiles and mammals.
What we have seen in late January has proved that the city of Phoenix needs one more water treatment facility. The tax revenue that will be lost if a water crisis every happen again will pay for the building of the new facility. The water department has known of this problem for years but has chosen not to rectify the hazard. City officials chalked up the high levels of sediment in the water to Mother Nature, but they acknowledge that a series of decisions by water officials could have worsened the problem. (Villa, Fehr-Snyder, 1) The water department knew and Frank Fairbanks knew that maintenance was required on rotating bases, on each facility and chooses to take two offline during the “winter” or “rainy months”.
“Last Call at the Oasis” is a documentary about our world’s water crisis. The film discusses how many large cities in America are getting closer to use up their available water, how many areas across the globe do not have access to drinking water and are forced to drink contaminated water, how water shortages are causing acts of violence and are causing stress to agricultural communities, and a possible solution of using recycle water to stop us from wasting so much water. The film goes around the globe to talk to scientists who are studying contaminated water, people who have become very sick due to this water, and to the agricultural community in Australia where, unfortunately, some farmers have take their own lives due to water shortages.
The National Park Service group should have their funds significantly cut by the Federal Government. In today's growing age of technology, there is no benefit aside from personal pleasure to go to national parks, their is also the issue that no one is interested nor has enough time to go to the national parks. The parks are not bringing in as much money as they once were, and the areas that are protected can be used for many more productive means than what they are used for now. Directing the funds allocated to the National Park Services elsewhere, would allow more promising projects to prosper. This change would create jobs, and opportunities for others, encourage people to embrace technology, instead of vilifying them for using it, and then
In this section I will discuss the Sydney metropolitan water system and current situation of Sydney water system and its security towards supply and comparison to the old system.
The Olympic National Park is located at Port Angeles in Washington and also has been as a known location with a history of mixed cultures; since it has been a settled by the Native Americans and Europeans; to Theodore Roosevelt visiting the national park. Olympic National Park endured a powerful windstorm that heavily damaged the park and a natural habitat to a unique group of animals living there. The climate in the location of the national park is rather different than others in certain seasons; like the temperature in the summer will go from 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit in the morning.
environment. The environment cannot care for itself and it is up to us to do it because if we do not do so, our
On September 9th, 2017 at approximately 7 p.m., I went to Gracedale Public Park to carefully conduct my observation on the individuals, who were at the park and their specific activities in the one hour of time. When I got there, the weather was beautiful with soft winds, a clear sky and with some dim sunlight. The park was full of people of all ages. Though, there were more kids than adults and some teenagers. There were many bicycles and strollers parked beside the tree I sat under. After a couple of minutes, the park filled up with more and more individuals and everyone seemed busy doing their own actions.
What if it was said that all of the National Parks were closing because no one is funding them anymore, would you be upset? Many people would be because it is something to do with your family on a long, boring day or maybe because they just like going to National Parks. Closing down National Parks would stop people from seeing the beautiful things in America, cause things to become extinct, and also would end with a lot of protests and angry people. National Parks make billions of dollars a year and 15 percent of the costs, go to the government but the parks need funds to do new things and buy items that the people may want. For instance, Yellowstone, Ellis Island, and any other famous parks that are visited, all have a different story that protects America.
MAIN POINT (state as a single declarative sentence): Pollution is a huge global problem that affects every living being on Earth.
In addition to this, the ‘Sydney Catchment Authority’ was created in 1999. The Sydney Catchment Authority was created to manage and protect drinking water catchments. According to “Sydney’s Cryptic Water Crisis” the low water levels in reservoirs due to drought Sydney Water announced in 2007 it would build the Kurnell Desalination Plant, powered by wind energy, that would supply up to 15% of the drinking water supply to Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains.” This is the largest water supply project for Sydney since 1960. Today, Sydney has 30 wastewater treatment plants and water recycling plants. These plants treat about 1.5 billion litres of wastewater today. This accounts for 12% of Sydney’s water needs. As for the droughts Sydney has experienced in this century and water levels that dropped about 32% in the Warragamba Dam, the NSW Government developed the Metropolitan Water Plan, which is the most recent response in water supply
The first global environmental problem is haze this is caused by burning down forest. As we all know that green forest is important because it creates photosynthesis for flora and fauna for human begin. When a deforestation activity happens all of these will be destroyed due to their shatters is being chopped down. Burning down forest is a result that produces bad air pollution to public; the effect of air pollution to humans is cardiovascular problems, respiratory infections and lastly gets irritations skin& eyes. Base on the articl...
Today talking about environmental issues lately to be like a common topic discussion until people take it for granted. However, the world facing a complex environmental problems related to each trouble that connected to one another and come out with greater impacts to the environment and humans. This is because the effects of environmental only can be seen in long term period rather than immediately result show up. Environmental issues must become one of the controversial matters in the society in order to make people know the truth what the world currently facing. There were a lot of environmental disaster happened such as climate change, global warming, various of pollutions, earthquake and etc. the rise of environmental issues begin with this urban development occur through several countries following with the technologies equip along. For sure, development will cause a huge negative impact to the environment if it deals without a care. Besides, the environment is the place in the ecosystem to hold and use in finding resources to continuously survive in this world. Thus, the finding and digging for the resources which happening extensively without preservation will not restore the surrounding similar with before. But then, the change cannot be refuse and people need to take an action to save the threaten the world and the ecosystem from being extinct. If each country has own output in causing an environmental problem, then consider the world to hold all the damage occurred. Exposing the effects of environmental issues throughout the world, make people realize the important to take care the environment.