Surface runoff

Climate change in Wisconsin will increase the frequency and amounts of rainwater and runoff. According to WICCA “there is growing scientific knowledge about the potential frequency of large rainfalls is sufficient to warrant immediate changes in the methods used to design and manage storm water-related infrastructure.” The WICCI has determined that it is likely that Wisconsin will experience “wetter conditions and high water levels” (WICCI), due to climate change. Wisconsin will also have warmer…

Introduction The purpose of this manuscript is to have a conversation about California, its droughts, and how agriculture is affected and how it can be amended to survive said droughts. I wish to do so by showing what are essentially what kinds of droughts California has face before. I also want to try and show how some other places have attempted to help themselves through their own methods by going through what they did for those and what they attempted to do in case of other future droughts.…

us. Then we started our research with Forest LFA, including landscape organization assessment (LOA) and soil surface assessment (SSA). Firstly, we set up a 50m transect running directly up and down the slope and mapped patches and interpatches on this transect. We regarded the place where resources could be accumulated as patches, like grass, shrubs, logs or trees. Then we made soil surface assessment by choosing 3 points in each patch type randomly and collecting 11 indicators which can reflect…

Water flowing over asphalt pavement collects particles of dirt, deicing chemicals, automotive fluids and other contaminants. The runoff may flow into a storm sewer or directly into a nearby stream or lake, taking the contaminants with it. By containing the runoff, permeable asphalt keeps the contaminants from entering the water system. Furthermore, although almost all new asphalt pavement contains a certain percentage of recycled asphalt, many…

1.1. Sustainable Development The idea of energy efficient, healthy buildings has been around for a long time, it is now that the concept of “green” or “sustainable” building has entered the mainstream and catching the global attention. There are probably several reasons; Global Warming, rising energy costs, the growing awareness, declining oil reserves, and concerns about our limited water supply. The list goes on, but whatever the reason or reasons; energy efficient building is a concept whose…

don’t directly contribute to the rising of sea-level, they play an important part in acting as a resistance towards the runoff water from glaciers to stop this water from reaching the ocean. The buttressing…

unsustainable. One can see how much little water is needed for crops compared to animals and their required feed. Pesticides can contaminate bodies of water through increased topsoil runoff, harming aquatic life and humans if it is used as drinking water. It is not uncommon for animal water to end up in bodies of water, again through runoff, causing virus outbreaks and even diseases. As food production has increased, water availability continues to decrease to a growing…

need of clean water are without access to saltwater, requiring additional work to transport the distilled product to these areas. Contrarily, bioplastics are remarkably efficient. Unlike regular plastics, they provide healthy nutrients to Earth’s surface when they degrade. By virtue of their infallibility, bioplastics will become prevalent in the near…

Ocean Pollution The Ocean covers approximately 70% of earth’s surface. All that ocean provides humans with food, water, and plants. Unfortunately, those large bodies of water that are helping us live on earth, are being turned into landfills by the wastes that are being created and polluted by humans. Water pollution is showing what is capable of year by year. If we don’t start making a push towards cleaner oceans earth will no longer be able to provide us a home. It wasn’t until the 1800s…

because of the location, there is more sunlight hitting the waters. The sample that was taken was also in a shallow open area versus in the harbor that was in a shady deep location.  Average pH Figure two shows the average pH in both the surface (8 ppm) and bottom waters in GH, as well as the average pH in GHB (7.8ppm). The bottom and top of the harbor water were the same pH because pH does not tend to change much in deeper waters. The pH of the waters at the beach were slightly…