Aral Sea

The Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest freshwater lake in 1960. Since then, there has been a water transfer project using mainly a canal that sends water to numerous locations across Asia. It is now almost dry because of our use. Some ways it has been effected include: it's lost 72 feet of height, 89% of its volume, and has been split in half. Also, its salinity increased sevenfold while toxicity increased (resulting in contaminated drinking water and health issues). Recovery efforts soon began in 1999, and with the contribution of 600 million dollars from the UN and the World Bank. Surrounding countries also worked hard, and now the situation, though still progressing toward the worse, is more or less stable.

The West African nation of Niger has experienced one of the worst water crisis in the world that has left the population malnourished and in poverty. Location, climate and political instability can be attributed to the water scarcity, which not only leaves the nation lacking water, but in a state of underdevelopment. However, many non-government organisations have supported the nation and its people.

the lack of water has created such a deep plight in their homes, a plight that can be relieved by

In addition, several "water supply systems have been affected by the spill. While the river system mostly serves farming communities, the disaster also poses a risk to the drinking water of 17, 000 people living

Nearly half the states in the U.S. are abnormally dry. This is a situation that will be happening until the world ends. By 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change (“Clean Water Crisis, Water Crisis Facts, Water Crisis Resources”). This is something very serious to think about. We will be looking this problem directly in the face in less than 10 years unless we all make a conscious effort to significantly cut down on the amount of water we use. For a lot of third world countries, this water shortage problem is something that affects daily life. 319 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are without access to improved reliable drinking water sources (The Water Project). That's more people living without adequate water conditions, than the total population of the United States in 2014. As an American myself, the

Consequently,“Officials say at least 1,300 people have lost their water in and around East Porterville, nearly three hours’ drive north of Los Angeles, making the town’s residents some of the hardest hit victims of the three-year-old drought” (Source 2).“Sometimes,” she says, nodding towards her youngest child, “when she needs to go, I just take her outside” (Source 2). Countless people have lost water making it troublesome to even do daily tasks including whole towns. People don’t even want to waste their water

One of the greatest issues that we encountered in Haiti was the lack of access to clean drinking water. The water that is delivered

While the Aral Sea is beset by similar problems of pollution from the rivers that supply the sea with water, it also suffers from a lack of water reaching it. Much of the water these rivers provide is siphoned off to provide irrigation for farms in the region, causing the sea's surface area to plummet dramatically while the depth has dropped in the process (Vinogradov & Langford, 2001, p. 347).

They are ordered to use less water in their daily lives. Also, the federal government sending millions of dollars in "drought aid”. And are told to take shorter showers and to turn off

However, in the 1990’s and the 2000’s, the phosphorous, and subsequently the algae, came back. The amount of walleye caught per year has now become one fifth of what it was. The number of charter fishing companies has decreased by 40%. The smelt catches of commercial fisheries are now three fifths of what they used to be. The shores and beaches are now repulsing tourists, rather than attracting them, cutting down a tourism industry that earns $10 billion a year.

This article, “Oceans of Pollution” is written by Dahr Jamail. He presents this article with many details to support his argument. Two main topics with support are used, which is how plastic is causing a great pollution affecting the fertility rates of the fish because fish can ingest tiny sizes of plastic therefore harming the creatures. As well, another topic in this article is the dead zone affecting the ocean, caused by natural environment, climate changing the temperature and human factors. This article mainly presents this article to the government to suggest for change and to humans, many who are biologists, who care about this huge problem. With the intensity of the ocean’s pollution, the article uses three rhetorical topics, pathos,

The habitats that are exploited to farm fish are becoming ineffective, as a result of disappearing mangroves. Humans should be protecting wild fish instead of over farming them. The issues caused by aquaculture are rendering the ecosystem unsustainable. In this chapter, we learned about aquaculture and all the various problems that come with it.

Due to industrialization and other types of human activities, it has lead to an increase of greenhouse gas emission, such as carbon dioxide. The greenhouse gases cause global warming by trapping the heat of the sun in Earth’s atmosphere. Therefore causing the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere to rise as well as the ocean’s temperature resulting in the shrinkage of Menhaden. Not only does this affect other marine organisms, but it comes back and have an effect on humans. In 2013, the dockside value of Menhadens were approximately $129 million, decreased size of the fish will result in predators wanting to consume more leaving less fish for the harvest making it an economic problem for the fishing industry because the value will go down. Furthermore the article is important knowledge to the public because it can lead awareness to stop our planet from warming up even more and leading the Menhadens to shrink to an even smaller size than they already

The Artic Sea Routes map reveals that travelling through the Arctic region for trade greatly reduces transit time. The title map suggests that the map focuses on maritime paths through the Arctic. Centered on Iceland and including parts of Africa on the map, the Sea Routes map, due to a focus on trade and therefore the ability of boats to travel through a region, differentiates between ice and ocean. The Sea Routes map shows the topography of the sea floor of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and includes lines of latitude and longitude,

The article “Cape Town Pushes Back ‘Day Zero’ as Residents Conserve Water” by Richard Perez-Pena speaks about the measures citizens have to take to preserve the water supply of Cape Town. Cape town has experienced much drought and many scientists have have up with a date, called Day Zero, in which the system is expected to run dry. As of right now the residents have been conserving water and have cut about 139 gallons a day. This allowed the city 10 more weeks until “Day Zero” will occur, the new estimated month Day Zero may occur is April. If Day Zero occurs, residents have to receive water rations from trucks, forcing millions to stand in line for a basic necessity. This idea of a city running out of water is mind boggling, and it really