management is facing? What strategies are being implemented to adapt to these environments? The environmental issues that Coca-Cola’s management is facing are the depletion of groundwater and pollution in India. For years the Coca-Cola bottling plants have been taking groundwater from the local villages. Similar groundwater
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Maksimov July 07‚ 2014 ABSTRACT: Experiments were done on the water quality and the contamination of groundwater. First‚ I observed the effects that different pollutants had on groundwater. I predicted that the experiments with the oil and vinegar would create the most contaminations to the water. When the laundry detergent were mixed with the groundwater‚ it created a light green color with a pleasant smell. The second water treatment experiment were about filtering techniques
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I do not believe that hydraulic fracking is good for the environment because it puts toxic waste into the ground‚ contaminates water supplies and the accidental spills lead to much devastation‚ and even our groundwater gets contaminated. Toxic waste from the hydraulic fracking is one of the worst things that is happening as of right now. Fracturing fluid chemicals are known to cause cancer and they sometimes use the fracturing fluid for flowback. The flowback of fracturing enters the air easily
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Nebraska has more groundwater than any other state. The Ogallala Aquifer underlies about 174‚000 miles of the High Plains. In some places it can get up to 1‚000 feet deep. It spans across eight states‚ including South Dakota‚ Nebraska‚ New Mexico‚ Wyoming‚ Colorado‚ Oklahoma and Texas. It is being pumped by close to 200‚000 irrigation wells. This water is so important to American Agriculture. It helps hydrate America‚ so think what would happen if it were to run out? Even though ground water is a
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The Consequences of Water Pollution Annually‚ 90 million people add to the current population of 6.5 billion. At this rate the global population will reach approximately 8.5 billion by 2025 (http://dieoff.org/page120.htm). As the global population grows exponentially‚ so does the demand for natural resources. Of all these natural resources‚ water‚ is the most vital for survival and expansion. Human’s dependency on water will never go away‚ making it a key part to any civilizations future. It
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They are concerned that millions of gallons of contaminated wastewater are produced from fracking methods and that there are currently no facilities operating to remove these pollutants. When separated by a mile or more from groundwater sources and the earth’s surface‚ the ancient marine waters along with naturally existing toxic compounds are not an issue‚ but “Fracking disturbs‚ distributes‚ and carries upward with the fracked gas ‘produced waters’ containing radioactive materials
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One major component of environmental degradation is the depletion of the resource of fresh water on Earth. Approximately only 2.5% of all of the water on Earth is fresh water‚ with the rest being salt water. 69% of the fresh water is frozen in ice caps located on Antarctica and Greenland‚ so only 30% of the 2.5% of fresh water is available for consumption.[3] Fresh water is an exceptionally important resource‚ since life on Earth is ultimately dependent on it. Water transports nutrients and chemicals
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to clean water. - global demand for fresh water will vastly outstrip reliable supply in many parts of world. - 97.5% of water is sea water ‚ left 2.5 % of “ fresh water “ but inside include glacier ‚ ice packs ‚ soil moisture ‚ atmosphere ‚ groundwater . Factors driving to this situations : 1. Demographic pressure population growth rate surged up . expand world’s population from 7 billion to almost 8 billion by 2025 . affect the developing countries especially Africa . expanding urban
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Water on our planet can be stored in any one of the following major reservoirs: atmosphere‚ oceans‚ lakes‚ rivers‚ soils‚ glaciers‚ snowfields‚ and groundwater. Water moves from one reservoir to another by way of processes like evaporation‚ condensation‚ precipitation‚ deposition‚ runoff‚ infiltration‚ sublimation‚ transpiration‚ melting‚ and groundwater flow. The oceans supply most of the evaporated water found in the atmosphere (“The Water Cycle.”). Of this evaporated water‚ only 91% of it is returned
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water supply systems. Groundwater is the city’s major water source now; It is drawn mainly from the well-fields in the Araniyar- Kortakaiyar basin and the aquifer between tiruvanmiyur and Muttukadu along the coast of south Chennai. Groundwater extraction is reaching its limits. According to the Central Groundwater Board‚ 80% of Chennai’s groundwater has been depleted and any further exploration could lead to salt water ingression. The assured yield from groundwater sources is estimated at 190
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