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Since 2012 the drought has infected California with the most intense dry period in the last 1,200 years. The drought is becoming a major problem in California. The current drought occurring since 2012 has shown up negative five on the Palmer Drought Index Severity. The Palmer Drought Index Severity is a scale to record droughts where, a zero represents normal conditions, a negative one is a drought, and a negative four is an extreme drought. Even though many might think the drought is only going…

Have you ever wondered how was it like to live in the freshwater biome? I’m going to tell you some interesting things about thies biome. Surprisingly, only one fifth of the of the earth are freshwater biomes, and only 3% of the water on Earth. Freshwater is located on every continent even Antarctica. I selected this biome because I know that we need freshwater, and I wanted to know where we get it from and who effect by taking it. Next, I will talk to you what the environment is like in the…

The right to water is a vital right as the water plays a major role in everyday life and in the environment. Long term droughts bring economic, social and environmental consequences, which affect several sectors, such as agriculture and public water supply. In recent years, some states have been affected by a series of severe droughts associated with the summer heat waves affecting a large part of the country, the lack of rain and fires also have an important role in droughts. The water…

They repeatedly found unsafe lead levels in the drinking water. They discovered that if Flint had been using an anticorrosion agent like orthophosphate minerals to coat city pipes, the lead crisis may have been averted. (Watch a Scientific American video about Flint's lead pipe corrosion.) Furthermore, Edwards’s team uncovered the widespread use of lead testing practices that deviated from EPA protocol—Flint residents were encouraged to “pre-flush”…

water can save us. It is totally unpredictable. It is a source of everything we do on a daily basis. As water itself is fickle, we respond in a fickle manner. We only change our behavior in times of needs, times when water is scarce. As soon as the crisis passes, we continue on with our original activities and actions. We need to change our attitudes. The problems surrounding water scarcity can be solved, but we must stop overlooking them and begin to take action sooner rather than…

city at one point because it is where General Motors was founded. The nation fails to realize that Flint is a result of bad policy because the people of Flint, like many other states in America were told, “Demolition Means Progress”. The Flint water crisis is something that has been going on for a while but is just now getting attention. No one is the first one to jump on issues of Michigan because it is labeled, just another issue of the already struggling state. But Flint was not always…

In this week’s post I will be discussing the mechanisms of how our body regulates water intake and output. It’s important for our body to have fluid balance, this is when our body balances out what fluids we take in or gain versus the amount of fluids that our body losses or excretes. One of the more obvious ways we gain water is by consuming food and drinks, this is called preformed water. Our bodies also keep our fluids up by creating metabolic water. According to Saladin metabolic water is…

fraction of them have access to potable water. Only nineteen countries in Africa are estimated to meet the Millennium Development Goals (Saliu). Oftentimes, the people of South Sudan are forced to consume contaminated water thus this water and sanitation crisis consequently resulted in 400,000 water-related deaths in Africa (Saliu). Additionally, in South Sudan, the water contamination peaked during the South Sudanese civil war. Two primary South Sudan tribes, the Dinka and the Nuer fought…

The video “Drought Caused by Decreasing Water Supply in Texas,”focused on the recent drought and record temperatures in Texas. The community is having to cut back on their water supply due to the lack of it. In Texas, seventeen systems are predicted to run out of water in six months or less. The community have made drastic conservation efforts and they have been working so far, but if water supply continues to decrease the town of Robert Lee has worked so far, but if the reserves deplete at…

that I had not heard before. I occasionally read literature on California drought, so I had some knowledge on this issue already. What I really enjoyed was that he went into detail explaining how municipalities are attempting to handle the water crisis. Dr. Schwabe information on the various pricing structures for water districts was insightful. Testing to see how people react to the different pricing structures is behavioral economics. People do not always react in a linear fashion when it…