Water supply

years, the government has been poisoning the public water supply without citizens explicit consent. Many are convinced that fluoridation is a healthy and positive thing, and will help you have a white sparkly smile, but little do they know, they are wrong. This issue was a hard thing for Americans to swallow. Are the rumors true? Is there actually fluoride in our water supply? Can we be harmed by this act?…

Like Australia, California is reducing its water-demand through short-term and long-term conversation measures. Short-term measures include restrictions on the number of days’ lawns can be watered and calls for shorter showers and fewer toilet flushes. These short-term measures are fast and relatively inexpensive way to meet state-mandated reduction targets in potable water use and have helped reduce drawdown from surface water dams and groundwater aquifers. (Turner, 2016) Long-term…

Man-made Water Crisis Droughts have played a huge role throughout California’s history. Just as recently as two years ago, California’s record-breaking drought was declared the worst in the state’s history. However, this year, Governor Jerry Brown declared the drought emergency at an end. Many residents have referred to California’s issue as a “man made drought.” In other words, the water crisis is not from the lack of fresh water in California, but the lack of purposeful direction and use…

can this affect health of citizens, but will also cause immediate spending in order to expeditiously repair water systems. The reason for potentially dangerous water supply is that saltwater from oceans (because of the rising levels) and tropical storms can penetrate into nearby soil and groundwater wells, thus salinization of said water occurs. In addition, bacteria and algae find warm waters to be favorable to act as a breeding ground. The combination of salinization (which can manifest a…

getting deeper. As the world’s water basins, rivers, creeks and other freshwater sources are depleting by the gallons, it appears that water scarcity is no trivial wound. With its inhabitants’ lives at stake on this beautifully sad world, they need its tears to survive. Its puddle of teardrops is a vital necessity and more people should be aware of it importance. Fresh, unpolluted and uncontaminated water is essential to individuals living across the world; water is necessary to carry out their…

Extended along the western coast of South America sits Chile, a country placed between the world’s deepest ocean, the Pacific, and the longest mountain chain, the Andes. This geographic predicament has left Chile vulnerable to devastating earthquakes due to the tectonic instability of the region. In addition to an unstable natural environment, societal and political instability have also plagued Chile’s past including the incident of a violent coup overthrowing the Marxist government in 1973.…

Methamphetamine can ruin a person’s body like Luke Williams the author of The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal-meth Addiction, he wrote this book while doing meth. There is only a way they can get into society and it is meth labs. Most meth labs are in the U.S in Michigan. The southwest area of Michigan has the highest meth lab rates in history, Michigan Legislation is trying to keep the south west society safe from meth. Meth labs are busted every year in Michigan around the south west and in…

Water is an important part of our lives ,even though it is not the first thing to come to mind, it will always remain our number one necessity. The scarce water source not only puts Texans at war against each other, but it also made people's everyday lives difficult. Water is every living thing's number one necessity, we humans cannot live without it, yet we take advantage of it. Jenna Craig states how in 2007 Texas had a severe drought and how it had its effect on farmers, businesses,…

touching on the issues of water scarcity both throughout the world as a whole, and the U.S. in particular. Various solutions have been proposed, but which will best suit the greater population. You can expect different opinions from different points of view, as well as my own. Toward the end of the twentieth century global warming, a surprising factor, began to warm the earth’s atmosphere at a high acceleration (Levin). Due to the fact that a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, the…

California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed the legislation into law during September of 2014 as an attempt to manage California’s groundwater for the first time in history. Through this legislation, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the DWR have established a timeline with deadlines to comply with SGMA. By June of 2017, groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) will need to form and provide groundwater sustainability plans (GSP) by the year…