The American Crisis

In the Precambrian Shield there are no continuous aquifers and ground water is only found in the fractured and weathered zones of Precambrian rock. These various aquifers are located primarily in gneiss and granite. The Precambrian shield only makes up a small portion of eastern Bolivia. Aquifers in this province are generally shallow at depth less than 90 meters and due to this many of the aquifers are biologically contaminated near populated areas (Roebuck et al. 2004). Majority of the ground…

Water supply on earth is finite. The United Nation’s world water development report, Water for a Sustainable World (2015), illustrated the 55% increase of global water demand by 2050. Without effective countermeasures, the word will encounter a 40 percent shortage of water within two decades. In Canada, water waste is the potential trigger of water shortage. Despite the great abundance of reserved water, Canada has a fixed average precipitation around 537 millimeter per year, less than 1/3…

Post-Sandy Price Gouging: Economically Sound, Ethically Dubious A Review of the Article Kalina Walters Montana State University Billings Post-Sandy Price Gouging: Economically Sound, Ethically Dubious Price Gouging Concept A concern for many consumers who have been involved in a natural disaster is how to get supplies at a reasonable price before they are gone. When natural events occur it leaves people in need of the very basic commodities like gasoline, groceries, and utilities. Stores and…

My Mindset On Water There are approximately 7.7 billion humans on earth. Every one of us is dependent on water the minute we are born. It is essential to our lives and we depend on it for our survival and for our strength. Depending on where we are born and what we encounter over our lives in relationship with water, our views and ideas on water differ from one another. It is in human nature to develop opinions on living and non-living objects based upon our experiences with that object. We…

because even though some bottled water is regular tap water sometimes it is processed to improve its taste. For this reason some would say that bottled water tastes better than tap water. In a blind taste test done the cheapest bottled water Kmart’s American Fare won followed by big seller Aquafina which is just tap water and in third place was NYC tap water which tied with Iceland Spring. Even though some bottled water is tap water the taste is sometimes improved. The background information for…

On Earth, there is an abundance of water but realistically only 1% of that water is available for human use. Our water recycles itself continuously through the water cycle, however the more we use water from the 1%, the higher the chance that the water will become polluted and unusable for humans. Moreover, when our use of water outruns the rate at which it can be restored naturally, we increase the risk of water scarcity. As more water becomes contaminated and as more human activities impact…

The Banqiao Dam Failure, 1975 The Banqiao Dam was built on the Ru River as a means to prevent future flooding of the Huai River Basin in the Zhumadian Prefecture of Henan Province in central China, which had been severely flooded in 1950. Construction of the dam was started in 1951 and was completed the following year. The slightly smaller Shimantan Dam on the Hong River, and many other smaller dams situated within this river system, were built for the same project. By 1954, both the Banqiao…

• 50% of Indians don’t have proper shelter. • 70% don’t have access to decent toilets (which inspires a multitude of bacteria to host their own disease party). • 35% of households don’t have a nearby water source. • 85% of villages don’t have a secondary school (how can this be the same government claiming 9% annual growth?). • Over 40% of these same villages don’t have proper roads connecting them. (2) After having a quick review of the Indian case, I will talk about the story of a poor…

In the era of early civilizations, a nation’s safety and success was largely dependent on their location and nearby geographical features. Susceptibility to invasions by other empires and the welfare of agriculture were just some issues that posed a threat to those with unfortunate geographical locations. Some were lucky, with easy access to trade and the protection of natural barriers. Geography also played a large role in cultural diffusion and how different regions interacted with each other.…

Furthermore, the walk is not just hard but it is dangerous, the women or girls who step out unaccompanied and burden with a large amount of water may be get hurt, sometimes they even are attacked by strange people. According to the Statistics of water crisis, girls who are under the age of 15 are twofold as likely as boys to be the family member have the responsibility for fetching water (The water project, 2014). Thus if using water filters can diminish the state of collecting safe drinking…