Groundwater

Sociopolitical factors such as race and economic class heavily impact access to safe and affordable drinking water. While infrastructural differences appear to be the cause of the water disparities, discriminatory housing policies, land use practices, and zoning laws caused low-income communities and communities of color to form on unwanted and unincorporated land and underlie the inequalities in water access and quality. When well-represented cities grew, they annexed land around…

fracking operation, containing a toxic bath of 600 chemicals like mercury and uranium"; on the other hand, Ms. Hernandez states, " While some people are concerned about the environmental impact of fracking, there has never been recorded a case of groundwater contamination from fracking". The opposing party makes serious…

Recently, states on the east coast of the U.S. have been slowly sinking into the Atlantic Ocean due to flooding. The flooding isn’t always coming from the rainfall of the recent hurricanes Irma and Harvey, but even occurs on days you least expect it, sunny and calm days. They call this “nuisance flooding” and researchers are expecting more of this to occur in the future. One of the possible factors of this occurrence could be that parts of Canada were covered by an ice sheet about 20,000 years…

The drought, a problem that has gradually increased in severity over recent years. This problem has caused a small amount of discomfort for the growingly dissatisfied californians. With both state and county wide water consumption regulations gradually being put in place, like 30 million in rebates to update to more water conscious toiletry and turf. With few applicable solutions to this problem, many californians have started to ask themselves “when can I put my sprinklers back on”. However the…

season, the overall precipitation remains the same. This is especially a problem in countries like India, where water for crops is being drawn from the earth. Parikh (2013) states that India has a declining groundwater supply. This is because of over-extraction by land farmers as groundwater is an open-access…

Drought affects society through multiple facets, especially through its ability to create fluctuating economies due to its affect on agriculture, electricity, and water usage, as well as the ways these processes are developed. When droughts turn dangerous, conservation is key, but this conservation is usually expensive. Virtually everyone is affected, even timber workers, as drought leads to increased chances of wildfires, causing wood companies lose money. Water is used in everyone's daily…

In this essay, I will be highlighting the negative effects of hydraulic fracking in its role of causing potential damage to the environment and contamination of groundwater. Hydraulic fracking is defined as the injection of liquid fluid at high pressure that extracts oil or gas. In Cart’s article, she denotes how this issue is very problematic because both oppositions have different opinions. For instance, the companies she interviewed disregard the potential damages from fracking and state…

The water cycle is a process in which water travels from the oceans, to earth's atmosphere and land. There are many steps to the water cycle. Those steps are as follows: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration, Runoff, and Infiltration. I will walk you through step-by-step of how each of these things contribute to the water cycle. The first step of the water cycle is evaporation. Evaporation starts with water, absorbing the sun's heat, and turning into vapors. The water usually…

wells were usually about a couple hundred feet, but in the modern day wells have come to be considerably deeper. Farmers are now drilling up to two thousand feet underground for more water. The state of California doesn’t restrict the amount of groundwater usage for farms yet, so farmers found this…

the water would also benefit the local farmer, especially for the area that was originally far away from the water source. The canal system in Eastern India provided evidence that not only the economy of transportation feature is working, its groundwater irrigation is also contributing for improving the agrarian economies (Xenarios et al., 2011). Originally, the irrigation cost was relatively expensive for the farmers, yet, after the canal is rebuilt and refined, the water resource was diverted…