Benefits Of Legalizing Marijuana

In my opinion, the affordable water solution includes two main directions: Taps new resource and reduces expenses of water. There are many ways to create the new water resource and the feasible methods are 1. Building desalination plants 2. Building new the dams 3. Rain harvesting system. California has very long coastline and it provides the very great opportunity to utilize sea water to generate drinking water by desalination plants. NBC news “Solutions to California's Water Crisis from Half a World Away” showed the interesting comparing data between California and Israel in table 1 [2]. The desalination plants will contribute large amount of water to California’s drought. We need to consider if low snowpack and high temperature will happen frequently in the future, this is a right time to make a foresight plan to build the desalination plants. If the weather is still drought, agriculture must pump more water away from aquifer. There is not only the land is sinking but also influence the eco system.

“Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants.” (Jacobsen) Desalination is not a new idea it has been around for along time as far back as Aristotle in the 4th century and re emerging again the 1800s. Desalination is probably not going to be the magic solution to California 's drought problem at least not completely after all even the world’s biggest desal plants are only supplemental. The plants tend to not make enough water to support an entire population. Israel 's desal plant provide enough water for 2.8 million people, but California 's population is five times as bigger than israel 's and our agricultural industry is about thirty two times bigger. It can also be twice as expensive as treating other water sources due to having to heat the water. And there is also the problem of what to do with the leftover water or brine. Apparently you can’t just dump it back into the ocean as it could cause death to the nearby sea creatures due to it being too salty.

Desalination technology converts the tons of seawater that cover’s California’s coast into drinkable water. This process, though expensive and difficult, would provide California with an endless supply of water. The ocean is a huge part of the California lifestyle, and it could become a huge source of their water supply too. The Groundwater Replenishment System recycles water to be used again. It takes in about seventy million gallons of waste water a day and puts it through a cleaning and purifying process, that then makes this water safe enough to drink. Many people may not be comfortable with drinking recycled water, but this water could be put to use in landscaping and farming, adding seventy million extra gallons a day. The desalination process may be a bit far fetched for now, but using a water recycling program is completely feasible and would be a huge help in reducing California’s use of water. (only its not reducing, its just providing them with more water to use yknow? how should I phrase that?)

California can meet their water needs by using this precious resource much more efficiently than they are presently doing. California has been raising sustainable awareness by adding bulb-lit freeway signs every 10 miles along California Interstate 5 that say “Serious drought, help save water”, they have also printed placards that are posted in sparsely blooming almond and cherry groves, asparagus fields, and mile upon mile of empty dry cracked or tilled earth that warn people to use less water. As California continues to grow, this puts more pressure on their limited water supplies. California needs to figure out a way to manage their groundwater basins to secure the future of agriculture life.

Slowly overtime, to prevent any more bizarre events in the future, California shouldn’t take drought lightly. As of the recent drought, Government Brown taken action, have produced a restriction by 25% of decrease of water usage back in 2015, luckily in 9 months California was able to save 1.5 million acres-feet of water(Sanders). But farmers aren’t the only people with large lands, this also applies graveyards, golf courses, and more. Agriculture plays a big part of needing the water and if they can help cut down the portion of water used, so should the people in the city. So far, California haven’t prevented the drought from happening, but definitely not repeating the same mistakes from previous.

“California’s water future is increasingly uncertain,” says Heather Cooley, in her article California Needs Better Water Management and Pricing Policies (Source A). Agriculture uses 80 percent of California’s constrained water supply and proves to be the primary source of California’s drought. There has been no permanent and largely successful conservation effort to save water. However, with a reformed water management and conservation system, California’s largest industry, agriculture, can thrive while saving water at the same time.

As a consequence of the ongoing California drought, cities across the state have been forced to pull water from alternate sources aside from their own. Shortages of rain and snowfall have prompted the people of California to extract water from reservoirs and basins that are getting increasingly close to running dry. Unfortunately, this issue is especially prevalent in Southern California where the population is quickly out growing the area’s fresh water supply. The general problem is that Southern California is lacking the fresh water supply necessary to sustain its inhabitants. The specific problem is that the Southern half of the state is not located near a secondary source of fresh water, unlike the northern part of the

Unfortunately, the water that is found in the ocean is not completely useable. The water has to undergo various processes before it can be safely used either commercially or for personal use. According to Science for a Changing World, “only 2.5% of Earth’s water is freshwater” and of that 2.5%, “only a little more than 1.2% of all freshwater is surface water.” That means that the rest of the Earth’s freshwater must be either in the form of glaciers and ice caps or ground-water; which would require some financial investment first to convert into potable water before individuals can use it. Moreover, the same idea applies to ocean water which would require desalination plants to convert the water. In Carlsbad, “a 1 billion [dollar desalination] plant is being built (...) [in] California to provide about seven percent of the drinking water needs for the San Diego region” (Bienkowski). With a cost of one billion dollars to cover approximately only seven percent of water needs in a region, it certainly not an efficient method to pursue, adding the fact that energy consumption would be costly through this production as

A few options would have to be considered to limit the use of water no matter where anyone lives in order to delay the complete depletion of our water supply. A simple start would be to start limiting water usage in homes. People are guilty all over Kansas area of taking twenty to thirty minute showers which is completely unnecessary. Cutting the length of showers to once a day and a fraction of that shower time would save millions of gallons of water expeditiously. Another valid option would be to consider the amount of water used to water household yards. Yes, everyone wants a luscious front yard with healthy trees and a beautiful garden but the use of water can be regulated to help save. Hundreds of gallons of water are used in towns every where in order to make their grass green again. It is beautiful but the water can be shaved down in order to

Water control in California has always been problematic. Long drafts and severe floods show the coming of the state’s and world’s changing climate regional differences in water existence and demand for water. “A vast network of storage and conveyance facilities delivers water from the wetter parts of the state to population and farming centers in the Bay area, Southern California and the Sun Joaquin Valley. This network is now threatened by the physical and biological fragility of the system’s hub in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.” (2015) California is also living through one of the worst droughts in

Desalination is one of the more popular options being considered to attempt to terminate the drought. Desalination is a process through which salt water is pumped from the ocean in to a treatment facility, and then the salt is extracted to make it possible to be used domestically. This is a long drawn out process, which involves seven different steps. The steps of desalination include the

Because of toxic chemicals, marijuana is a dangerous medicine to human. There are many instant effects after using marijuana. It instantly speeds up heart rate, which expand human’s blood vessel in the eyes causes red eyes and illusion to human. Because of blood vessel’s expansion, human can easily get heart attack because the heart can be exhausted if it beats too fast. Using marijuana also gives human throat irritation. It would make human cough more which effectively damages to lungs and sore throat. Therefore, respiratory system would be reduced quality which also reduced life expectancy. Marijuana does not only give human instant effects, but it also leaves gigantic long term effect which is cancer. It can cause many bad cancers to human, and it also has highly risk to develop a form of testicular cancer, especially young male adult. It will give many effects to health after a few years using marijuana. Therefore, marijuana is harmful to human’s health and quality of life. Marijuana affects everyone who is using it. For women, it can badly affect to pregnant because the chemicals would transfer to the pregnant after they have used marijuana. Marijuana also gives human many syndromes such as visual stimuli, tremble, and problem with neurological development. Marijuana does not only affect to people who are using it, but it may also affect to other people, which is second-hand smoke. No one wants to get cancer from marijuana vapor. Marijuana is not too good for human because it has both mentally and physically health risks, and it also affects the others people. These adverse effects have crushed all the good effects. Therefore, legalizing marijuana is

This requires us to work-out new policies, regulations and reasons to reduce water concepts, re-use water and replacing water resources. In fact, we need new policies and regulation that will allow us to do more with less, and cascade water from one use to another. To be successful, we need significant efforts to raise awareness and change attitudes: appreciating the tremendous value water has for our lives, families, communities and nations. Only with this attitude can we create the desire to care for water and not waste

Legalizing marijuana makes lots of needed jobs for our country. New frontier data reported that the marijuana industry could open a quarter of a million jobs by 2020.

This is a great book with simple literature, jargon free and reader friendly. The authors has not only stressed on the problems of water demand but also the ideal solutions with related examples and possible hindrances. The execution and outline of the book was impressive, with the first chapters