Philosophy 101 8/4/2014 Saving Water Water is a natural resource that many take for granted; yet it is one we are quick to mourn when it is not present when we need it‚ such as for drinking‚ or when a disaster occurs that thrusts its vulnerability to the forefront of our daily news. Twenty years from now‚ will you have abundant‚ clean water? Unfortunately‚ the answer may be no‚ unless you want to buy water at $3 per gallon. People are already starting to conserve water. Many communities are putting
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SPEECH ON WATER Water is essential for life’. It keeps our body hydrated‚ it is healthy‚ and helps carry oxygen to our brain (blood cell). Without water‚ we would all shrivel up and die. After all‚ our body is made up of 70% water! But there’s more to water than you think. In the next few paragraphs‚ you will learn more about water than you would ever want to and find some amazing facts! You all know that humans are made up of 70% water‚ right? Our lungs‚ brain‚ and heart all are made up of mainly
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House Gas emissions‚ but very few report their water footprint. Water is as important as the air we breathe. We may be able to survive without electricity‚ but not without water. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency‚ an average US family of four uses about 400 gallons of water from their daily activities such as: taking shower‚ laundry‚ washing dishes and flushing the toilet [1]. This water consumption is without taking into account the water that goes into the food they consume‚ clothes
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Water scarcity involves water stress‚ water deficits‚ water shortage and water crisis. The concept of water stress is relatively new. Water stress is the difficulty of obtaining sources of fresh water for use‚ because of depleting resources.Some have presented maps showing the physical existence of water in nature to show nations with lower or higher volumes of water available for use. Others have related water availability to population. A popular approach has been to rank countries according to
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Water is good for your Health How many of you‚ when go to a restaurant and the waiter/waitress asks do you want something to drink. How many of you would prefer a glass of water out a fridge filled with soda‚ fruit juices‚ or beer? My guess is that probably no all of you prefer to drink water. I would choose water over the other options. I was not used to drinking water‚ but after I heard of the benefits that water has‚ I started to drink more water. For example when I’m thirsty instead of taking
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Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It currently affects around 2.8 billion people around the world‚ on all continents‚ at least one month out of every year and more than 1.2 billion people lack the access to clean drinking water.[1] Water scarcity can be a result of two mechanisms: physical (absolute) water scarcity and economic water scarcity‚ where physical water scarcity is a result of inadequate natural water
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Water is an odorless‚ colorless‚ tasteless chemical compound that makes up well more than half of the human body. In addition to being prominent in the make-up of the human body‚ it also covers all but approximately 30% of the Earth’s surface‚ and can be found naturally in all three states of matter: liquid‚ solid and gas. Water is a covalent bond known most commonly by its empirical form; H2O. It can also be identified by the Lewis Dot Structural form shown in the figure in the upper right corner
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desalination of water water‚ desalination of‚ process of removing soluble salts from water to render it suitable for drinking‚ irrigation‚ or industrial uses. The principal methods used for desalination include distillation (or evaporation)‚ electrodialysis‚ freezing‚ ion exchange‚ and reverse osmosis. In distillation saltwater is heated in one container to make the water evaporate‚ leaving the salt behind. The desalinated vapor is then condensed to form water in a separate container. Although long
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Water Pollution SCI/275 Artina Houston September 27‚ 2010 Aimee Pellet Water pollution is when a body of water is adversely affected due to the addition of large amounts of materials to the water. (www.imbgnet.net) There are four types of water pollutions and I’m going to describe each one of them. I’m also going to tell you the solutions that I can up with and how I’m going to get the government and people involved to help. It is a lot of things that we don’t know about water pollution
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April 2013 Water Pollution: Pollutants & Solutions Imagine swimming out of a narrow cavern following a scrumptious meal‚ and you come to realize it was poisonous. You begin to drown as your life slowly fades right before your very eyes; this is not a frightening hallucination. Everyday‚ schools of fish are unaware that their meals are products of millions of tiny pieces of garbage‚ assimilated. This is one of the many consequences of water pollution‚ which is the contamination of water bodies
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