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Failure of Our Water System: “Fouling Our Own Nests” Analysis Robert Glennon’s “Fouling Our Own Nests” addresses the gravity of our nation’s current situation regarding water. Glennon’s work thoroughly examines “water pollution [as] an acute national problem” and supports this statement with two main sub-claims: water pollution as an origin of immense risk to human health and water pollution as the compromising source of future water supply. Although the two sub-claims are addressed in distinct…

Congress has several attempts to regulate non-point source pollution. However, they are all viewed as a failure. From my point of view, it is a product of their largely non-regulatory approach and is due to a lack of technical information concerning what control measures actually work. Section 208 of the Clean Water Act “requires states to develop area-wide waste treatment management plans” and be submitted to EPA in return of federal financial assistance. It is considered ineffective because…

Each late spring, individuals run to the Great Lakes to swim and fish in the apparently unbounded waters and climb along the untainted shores. In any case, a foreboding undercurrent streams simply beyond anyone's ability to see. Beneath the water's surface wraths a natural calamity 200 years really taking shape. In The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, writer Dan Egan portrays how the lakes' characteristic history offered route to an unnatural one. From the impacts of worldwide exchange and…

Authors can influence their readers to do something useful for the environment with several different types of writing. There are three main types of influencing ways a author can write. One would be a way of protesting to change something. Another way would be showing how people what other people are doing to inspire them to do the same. The last way would be to right a fictional piece and represent what is going on in the environment. Every way to influence a reader is very effectual. Many…

Rapid urbanization of relatively small watersheds is the primary reason attributed to the reduced infiltration rate, increased runoff volume and the consequent flooding in the urban areas. This study focuses on selection of different Low Impact Development (LID) design options that can attenuate flood flows in urban areas. Watershed considered for this study is Moores Run watershed (8.8 Km2) located in Baltimore, Maryland. A basin scale curve number based hydrologic model was developed in…

It is not a secret that water pollution is one of the major environmental concerns today. Water plays an important role not only in human consumption, irrigation and transportation system, but also it plays an important role in providing support to life chain functioning. The problem that will be addressed in this paper is water pollution. The Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, New York, is one of the locations that generate serious environmental problems. The Canal is 1.8 mile long and 100 foot wide.…

Blog Post #3: Where is all of this contaminated water at? Contaminated water is a big part of the illnesses spread in the world today. This water is somewhere in every city, every state, and every country. There are many third world countries that do not have any clean water, and most of the children in these populations die from the water that is contaminated. We need to figure out the source of the impure water so we can help these people who lose friends, family, and children due to the…

Hi, I’m Alexis Vo and I’m writing to you about an issue I am currently concerned about: damaging and polluting our surface waters. Recently in Texas, our state’s natural waters have been polluted which damaged our wildlife with toxins and trash. Due to the pollution, 9,400 miles of our streams and a total of 1,412,000 acres of lakes and bays in Texas alone has been considered “impaired”. Surprisingly, Caddo Lake is the only natural body of water left in East Texas that has not been yet polluted…

Our task was to figure out a way to stop, or decrease, a certain situation that is affecting the water quality of a particular body of water in our neighborhood. The body of water that we will be focusing on today, will be the Foxstone Creek in Vienna Virginia. Although there are many different problems that have occurred in this creek, the problem that we noticed that is the most impactful, is the amount of erosion on the creek. Erosion is the process by which the surface of earth is being…

The Negative Condition of the Great Lakes By: Spenser Larson I am Spenser Larson from Chicago, Illinois . I am qualified to write this editorial because I graduated for the University of Stanford in California. I majored in Environmental Science while being the top of my class. I am currently a scientist for the United States Government. I am worried about the pollution in the great lakes because animals such as baby bird have been known to have deformations because of the cancer their mothers…