What is Stormwater Pollution? When it rains‚ water flows from your roof‚ yard‚ and street into the gutter and down the drain. The stormwater drain carries this water into Lake Macquarie‚ wetlands‚ lagoons and the ocean along with all the sediment‚ rubbish‚ grass clippings‚ pet faeces‚ chemicals and fertiliser it collects along the way. The result is stormwater pollution. Last Modified: 20-AUG-2009 What impact is stormwater pollution having on Lake Macquarie? Volumes of stormwater in urban areas
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Narrative essay Cooking with my mother Some of my fondest childhood memories have been shared cooking with my mother in our small kitchen. Coming from a big family it was always important that there was enough food and food that everybody liked. My mother knew every ones favorite dishes and things that we didn’t like. She is an amazing cook and always had me help especially with holiday dinners one in particular always sticks out in my flood of memories. It was thanksgiving and I was
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can we help reduce water scarcity in the world? What are the hindrances? What are the consequences of failure? Water is essential because water can maintain the process of eco-system‚ supplies the agriculture and human cannot live without water. However‚ there is the increasing number of water issues are appearing in the modern world and issues tend to be serious‚ especially the supply of water. Although water scarcity is an issue which needs to be solved quickly but‚ water scarcity is not easy
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drinking bottled water in record numbers—a whopping 5 billion gallons in 2001” (IBWA). Drinking water is an essential to all living beings‚ especially human beings. The concern globally is people are not getting enough water to help replace whatever they have lost through the normal bodily functions. Bottled water has great contributions when it comes to Americans. Americans of this century have grown up on bottled water; it becomes second nature to them to not buy bottled water. At schools a majority
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M5A1 Project 1 Water Balances GEOL108 Earth Science and Societies WATER BUDGET FOR TERRE HAUTE‚ INDIANA (Figure 2) J F M A M J J A S O N D P 7.4 6.8 9.6 9.4 10.1 10.2 8.1 8.2 8.7 6.9 8.4 7.5 PE 0 0 1.8 4.9 10.2 13.4 15.8 13.8 9.9 5.2 1.7 0.1 P-PE 7.4 6.8 7.8 4.5 -0.1 -3.2 -7.7 -5.6 -1.2 1.7 6.7 7.4 Change in ST 0 0 0 0 -0.1 -3.2 -6.7 0 0 1.7 6.7 7.4 ST 10 10 10 10 9.9 6.7 0 0 0 1.7 8.4 10
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Fact Sheet ST-604 October 1994 Strelitzia nicolai White Bird-of-Paradise1 Edward F. Gilman and Dennis G. Watson2 INTRODUCTION White Bird-of-Paradise is most often planted for its large‚ banana-like leaves and upright‚ clumping stalks which give an exotic feel to the landscape (Fig. 1). Plants can reach 20 to 30 feet in height with a spread of 10 feet though they are often seen much smaller. The five to eight-foot-long‚ cold-tender leaves are arranged in a fanlike display from the erect trunks
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Narrative Essay : Lost in the Forest So there I stood‚ no clue about my surroundings in a place I had never been before. Being in a forest all alone with nothing but a barely sharp pocket knife is a bad place to be but I had no choice in the matter‚ I was lost. I knew the first thing I had to do would be to build some kind of a shelter‚ something to keep me out of the weather and safe from any animals wanting to eat me. Next‚ I would need to find a food source abundant enough to last until I
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Narrative Essay One of my most frightening experiences happened when I was about thirteen years old. This happened while I was visiting with my grandma on the north side. The area where the incident happened was commonly known as the “Hood” where bad things happened to good people and worse things happen to bad people. My uncles and cousins were outside playing around and just having fun. Out of nowhere there was a continuous barrage of gun fire that seemed as if it wouldn’t stop. The target of
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The Truth About White Supremacy: American History X As a Hispanic‚ I suppose I should expect or‚ be prepared‚ rather‚ for racism and discrimination. Thankfully‚ I have not experienced either.. yet. Our world is not perfect; things take place that we rather not know about‚ but ignoring the problem seems to only make matters worse. The movie American History X‚ is an admirable attempt to inform us about these types of malicious ignorance that plague our society. The impeccable acting‚ artistic
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Narrative essay | April 12 2010 | | Week #2 | My name I was born May seventeenth‚ nineteen eighty four to my parents Rhonda and Larry. My childhood was full of happy times; I went on vacations‚ we went camping‚ and we just had a lot of all around good family times. The most significant change in my life came when I was about fourteen years old when my parents were divorced! Throughout my childhood I was a happy child I did as I was told‚ and I loved to play and work with kids that was
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