WATER RESOURCES What are water resources? Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. It is important because it is needed for life to exist. Many uses of water include agricultural‚ industrial‚ household‚ recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. Only 2.7% of water on the Earth is fresh water‚ and over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps‚ leaving only
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How Important is Water?As we all know‚ water is essential for mankind ’s survival. However‚ people seem to believe that our water supply is endless since there is more water than land on this Earth. Water regenerates and is redistributed through evaporation‚ making it seem endlessly renewable. So why worry?Actually‚ only one percent of the world ’s water has the capability of being used by us. About ninety-seven percent is salty seawater‚ and two percent is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.
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The Symbolism of Water Many works of literature use symbols to represent abstract ideas. One symbol that is commonly used is water. Water is a viable symbol because it is versatile. It can be used to represent many different ideals because water in itself is ever changing. Water is used in many works to represent such ideals as death‚ life‚ love‚ betrayal‚ purity‚ holiness‚ and so on. Giglamesh‚ the Old Testament‚ Egyptian Poetry‚ and The Odyssey all have symbolized water to represent an idea
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How can water generate Electricity? There are two primary methods for generating electricity from water. One method uses the energy potential of trapped water in dams in a more sophisticated version of the water wheel‚ and the other method of generating electricity is to capture energy from ocean waves. Electricity generated from water is entirely renewable‚ sinccete water is an abundant natural resource First method:When a dam is used to generate energy‚ tunnels are installed in the dam when
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“By 2015 half of the world will be short of water” Mohammed Allaf As the population of the world grows and grows and has reached the 7 billion mark‚ more and more fresh water is needed for the population to be used for drinking‚ cooking‚ washing and all the day to day uses of water. Thus trying to find fresh water has become a major threat because of the heavy consumption and need. And as this happens the poorer countries would be affected the most because of their inability to fund to
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Essay: Fluoridation of Public Waters According to the CDC‚ public fluoridation of public water has been identified as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements. The first documented use of fluoridation of public water supply was in Michigan in1945. There are many reasons to add fluoride to the water supply‚ but the reasons appear to be cost of delivery and ease of delivery. Public water systems are maintained by local water municipalities throughout the United States. The federal government
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The Physical properties of water: 1. Knowledge of the physical properties of water: Water is the most abundant compound on Earth ’s surface‚ covering about 70 percent of the planet. In nature‚ water exists in liquid‚ solid‚ and gaseous states. It is a dynamic equilibrium between solid and gas states at standard temperature and pressure. At room temperature it is tasteless and odourless‚ nearly colourless with a hint of blue. Many substances dissolve in water and is commonly called a universal
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Water is our past. Water is our future. Without it‚ we cannot survive‚ and there are no alternatives. Many people have likened the issue of water scarcity to our current economic struggle over petroleum. Without petroleum‚ we can’t drive our cars‚ and maybe we have to walk to school or work. This is not the case for water‚ as we are not dealing with simple inconveniences (as grandiose as they may be)‚ we are dealing with the issue of sustaining life itself. The global lack of abundance of usable
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10‚000‚000 people die each year just from drinking polluted water? Well‚ that’s a true fact! There are three main reasons that we need to prevent water pollution. Humans and animals can become poisoned‚ we are harming our environment‚ and the last reason is because of the amount of organisms dying. Can you believe that this all happens just because of water pollution? First‚ we will focus on humans and animals being poisoned. When humans and animals drink water that is contaminated they can become
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Water Resource Plan Everyone knows that to survive you need water. What everyone does not know is that what is being put into the water that we drink‚ that we swim in‚ and the water that we use for everyday activities has made it unsafe for everything that needs it to survive‚ plants‚ animals‚ and even humans. To sum it up our planet and everything in to can not survive without water. Many states have water that is very unsafe to drink and has made a lot of people very sick. Without water plants
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