My Impact On The Cycle Of Water
My impact on the cycle of water
Water, especially the use of water is normally taken for granted here in the United States. You need a glass of that cool, refreshing stuff; normally you would just turn on the tap and watch it flow. What would happen if when you were waiting for that crystal clear liquid to come flowing out, but to your surprise it doesn’t? The misuse and abuse of this natural resource has been the topic of conversations around the world. Lack of education and poor personal choices have impacted the way this element’s replenishes itself. In the next few paragraphs I will explain how I impact the cycle of water. There is no doubt that as a human on this planet, every action I do, has some type of impact on the cycle of water. …show more content…
I lose sleep at night in anticipation for the start of spring just so I can get a jump on planting. I normally grow a lot of fruits and vegetables which require enormous amounts of water and organic fertilizer. I am just as much into home brewing my own beer and wine, which also requires a great deal of that wet stuff. However, with mentioning these simple actions one can see that I truly come in contact with the cycle of water. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t use water in some form. I believe the most considerable impacts I make are not only my normal actions throughout a day, that I don’t even take notice of since they are common habits, as in brushing my teeth, flushing the toilet, taking a shower, down to just washing my hand when I come from the garden. If you added all the gallons that I personally use and multiply that by all the people that live in just the United States, roughly 320,090,857 people as per the census bureau for 2014 ("Census Bureau," 2014) that use around the same amount of water each day, it would be quite obvious that we as residence of this nation do a fine job exhausting our part of that 1% of available fresh water. “Different countries use different amounts of water, but we all tend to use them in the same ways, and some of these actions can impact on the water cycle – generating hydroelectricity, irrigation, deforestation and the greenhouse effect, as well as motor vehicle use and animal farming.”("Humans
Water, especially the use of water is normally taken for granted here in the United States. You need a glass of that cool, refreshing stuff; normally you would just turn on the tap and watch it flow. What would happen if when you were waiting for that crystal clear liquid to come flowing out, but to your surprise it doesn’t? The misuse and abuse of this natural resource has been the topic of conversations around the world. Lack of education and poor personal choices have impacted the way this element’s replenishes itself. In the next few paragraphs I will explain how I impact the cycle of water. There is no doubt that as a human on this planet, every action I do, has some type of impact on the cycle of water. …show more content…
I lose sleep at night in anticipation for the start of spring just so I can get a jump on planting. I normally grow a lot of fruits and vegetables which require enormous amounts of water and organic fertilizer. I am just as much into home brewing my own beer and wine, which also requires a great deal of that wet stuff. However, with mentioning these simple actions one can see that I truly come in contact with the cycle of water. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t use water in some form. I believe the most considerable impacts I make are not only my normal actions throughout a day, that I don’t even take notice of since they are common habits, as in brushing my teeth, flushing the toilet, taking a shower, down to just washing my hand when I come from the garden. If you added all the gallons that I personally use and multiply that by all the people that live in just the United States, roughly 320,090,857 people as per the census bureau for 2014 ("Census Bureau," 2014) that use around the same amount of water each day, it would be quite obvious that we as residence of this nation do a fine job exhausting our part of that 1% of available fresh water. “Different countries use different amounts of water, but we all tend to use them in the same ways, and some of these actions can impact on the water cycle – generating hydroelectricity, irrigation, deforestation and the greenhouse effect, as well as motor vehicle use and animal farming.”("Humans