Quality

One might not think that water insufficiency is a problem like wars, global warming and natural disasters. They think that our planet is 70% full of water and therefore, no worries. Unfortunately, less than 1% of the water in our blue planet is suitable for human consumption. The rest of it is found in saltwater or inaccessible such as the ice caps. Everybody is aware of the uneven distribution of water across our planet, some countries suffer from floods and hurricanes while others have…

Fox, Mem. (2008). Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. Boston, Massachusetts: HMH Books This book is intended for infants. It says that a baby was born far away and another was born in town. Another baby was born the day after and another baby was sick with a cold. But “as everyone knows” all of the babies have ten fingers and ten toes. The pictures in the book are of babies from different countries. The main point of this book is to tell babies that regardless of where you’re from or what…

The negative effects of water pollution can be seen all throughout the United States, however, a solution for this huge issue is slowly emerging. The harmful or irritating substances in the environment are called pollutants. There are many different types of Pollution that need to be addressed, and one of them is the issue on water pollution. Contamination of water, typically by foreign matter such as microorganisms, chemicals, industrial or other wastes, or sewage. “Water pollution can be…

Validation: The validation was performed for fallowing method for these analytical parameters System suitability, Accuracy, Precision, Linearity, LOQ, LOD, Robustness. a) Accuracy The closeness of agreement between the value, which are accepted either as a conventional true value or an accepted reference value and the value found. Accuracy is represented and determined by recovery studies. b) Precision The precision of an analytical procedure expresses the closeness of agreement between…

The people in Latin America are struggling to keep their lives while their bodies slowly die from the contamination of the water that they drank. These people in Latin America have women and children walk miles to get a glass of water to drink and even after they get that water, it is contaminated with all kinds of diseases that can lead to severe sickness and even death! That is why we have to conserve our fresh water that we take advantage of and get daily in our homes. Conserving water is…

A lead contamination of the tap water in Flint, Michigan has become a national scandal as in 2014, state appointed emergency manager decided to switch from the Lake Huron supplied water to the highly corrosive and polluted water from the Flint River, without treatment to control the corrosion of the lead pipes (Olson and Fedinick). Citizens soon started to complain about dark coloured, foul tasting, smelly water that residents claim to cause rashes and hair loss. The high levels of lead found in…

Water pollution was not a big concern to most Americans in the early ninth century, it was not until nineteen sixty nine when the Cuyahoga river caught fire. Along the Cuyahoga river banks, it is filled with industrial factories and steel mills. Cuyahoga River has been abused by man, by his dumping of toxic waste into the river, where it floats down south and into Lake Erie. On the morning of June twenty second nineteen sixty nine, when a passing rail car was crossing over a suspended bridge…

Sydney Water is Australia’s largest water corporation in which supplies Sydney, Ilawarra and the Blue Mountains with enough water, wastewater, recycled water and storm water services for almost five million people. Their three principle objectives are to: • Protect the environment • Protect public’s health • To be a successful business Restrictions They put a group of rules in place, called the Water Wise rules, that have certain restrictions that apply to everyone inside Sydney, Ilawarra…

In this lab my group and I learned about what type of test to conduct when determining a pollution source. I predicted that the Whitmore Strawberry Farm was producing the pollution that was causing algal blooms to form in the lake. The farm used a combination of organic and commercial inorganic fertilizers, which could have been the pollutant. The Whitmore Strawberry Farm was not the source of the pollution, the source was the Emerald Estates. Emerald Estates was above sample 1348 (D); they have…

10 Observations/Questions 10 Generalized: 1. Observation – Some trees around campus have tags on them stating the species of tree. Question – Why does Manchester tag the trees? Does the tagging of trees affect the trees at all? 2. Observation – One of the trees between Oakwood and the Administration building has had its branches cut/trimmed for aesthetic purposes, I assume. Question – How does the tree respond to this? Can those branches grow back? Or will it remain a nub? 3. Observation –…