The Doom Of The Lakes

The author argues that The Great Lakes region is entering an era of unparalleled water tension. Agreeing with this argument, The Great Lakes are just another piece of Earth that us humans are ruining. Since The Great Lakes are one of the largest fresh water sources in the world we are forced to protect against losing it's surface area. 40 million Canadians and Americans live amongst their basin. The author, Peter Annin, brings up clean water scarcity, this is a huge problem around the world and right in our "back yard". The city of Flint's toxic, unusable water has become an embarrassment for all of Michigan.

In 1960, Lake Erie was very polluted A lot of the cities such as Toledo, Sandusky, and Port Clinton’s waste was dumped into Lake Erie. Many of the factories that were surrounding the lake erie would dump their waste into the river, which was the cause of a lot of the pollution. Pesticides and chemicals from nearby farms washed off into the river whenever it rained, so the chemicals started to pollute the river. The cities that surround the near by river or lake paid a huge amount of money to get new sewer systems to help keep the water clean. This major source of freshwater is critical to the survival of the entire ecosystem and must be protected at all costs.

Pollution of Lake Huron has been over the years either through direct point sources or through non-point indirect sources (Saxena 1116). Direct point sources include sewage treatment firms and industries, which direct their wastes directly into Lake Huron and its tributaries. Nonpoint sources indirectly pollute water from the Lake, and majorly caused by man's activities and land policies applied by the man.

The Title of this essay is called “What is the Major Problems with Pollutants on the Great Lakes”. The essay explains that there is a problem going on in the Great Lakes with people who live around the Great Lakes area in that what they are throwing into the lakes; whether it would be from trash or fecal matter it is all causing major effects on the ecosystem on the Great Lakes, in turn effecting the fish and water we consume. This is not only a major problem for the lakes but also the humans that depend on those lakes.

Have you ever thought when you litter you could be polluting a whole lake! In 1972 Congress passed a law tightening regulations about factories and pollution. Forty-five years later we still are having problems with pollution. Lake Erie was so polluted that “Lake Erie Is Dead” started to appear in headlines of newspapers in 1960. Lake Erie’s name was replaced by “Dead Lake” due to the condition of the lake. In 1972 Lake Erie’s mess inspired the Congress to pass the Clean Water Act. Now in 2017 conditions of Lake Erie has not improved.

Who enjoys going to a body of water for recreational activities to find the lack of water or that it is too polluted to enjoy? I know I find it quite frustrating. Having Smoky Mountains National Park as my back yard growing up, I enjoyed fishing and tubing on the vast lakes, rivers, and streams. Now, living in Illinois, I still try to enjoy lakes and rivers, but find many of the bodies of water are either depleted or polluted. Like Derrick Jensen shows in “Forget Shorter Showers”, I believe that large scale waste reduction will decrease the damage done to the environment. I do agree to an extent with

Water pollution has become a major problem in our water sources. People think that when they litter or dump in our waters that their little contribution will not hurt anything, but everyone’s little contributions add up to some major problems. Our water ecosystems and the species that reside in them are being destroyed and we need to take the steps necessary to stop this. Why would anyone use the source of most of the world’s food as a dumping ground for garbage? People need to start realizing what it is they are doing when they do not take the proper steps to dispose of their garbage and the problems they are making for the future.

How does the garbage pollute the water? 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes each year. Scientists found unknown of pollution that they fear because it poses risks to people by spreading toxic

It is cited that the largest contributors to water pollution are power plants, pulp, paper and paperboard mills, slaughterhouses and poultry plants.5 In smaller farming operations, contamination is considered “non-point source” because the animal waste and fertilizer of farming are brought into the soil and washed away by rain and into the water supply.6 These

Pesticides are also found in the Great Lakes. These pesticides are made up of dangerous chemicals like toxaphene and chlordane. The rain transports the pesticides from crops to bodies of water like the Great Lakes. They are then absorbed by phytoplankton and it moves up the food chain from there. Pesticides

What if Long Lake had no fish? Would it still be the same lake? Pretty soon they won't be. Water pollution is rampant in the entire country and humans are the cause. The major contributor to water pollution in Minnesota is contaminants in runoff that make its way to pollute watersheds. Everyday water drainage or runoff that is not redirected causes pollution. Many household products with water usage such as soaps and detergents include phosphorus and also contribute to water pollution.

In the passage “Once More to The Lake” White realizes the similarities and differences of the lake he grew up visiting every summer with his father to how it is now that he’s visiting it with his own son. As he does activities with his soon he seen that most things still remain the same over the long period of time. As said in the passage “I knew it, lying in the bed the first morning, smelling the bedroom, and hearing the boy sneak quietly out and go off along the shore in a boat.” This reminds him of when he was younger going to the lake, the smell of the bedroom and now he’s like his father hearing his son sneak out to go in the boat by himself. The changes he realized was when him and his son goes into the store there were more Coca-Cola

The Great Lakes, though fairly clean, are contaminated with some deadly chemicals that have slipped by human filtration into the lakes. These emerging chemicals have been determined to pose some health risk to humans and surrounding ecosystems and are used by society, but are unregulated or inadequately regulated retardants (Miller-Branovacki, Lindsay, "Water Resources and Urban Waste Water (Week #8)"). More specifically an emerging contaminant is one which is not historically widely distributed, nor a concern, however are now persistent and bioaccumulative making them a concern for the environment. The three major categories for emerging contaminants are; endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), Pharmaceutical and personal care

Pollution in the Great Lakes is a big problem and it is very serious. Water pollution affects health of the living organisms in the lake, and soon it can affect the health of us human too. Water Pollution occurs when, people dump their stuff into the water, and factories dump their stuff into the water etc. This is an example of non-point pollutionm. Firstly, it affects the organisms life because all or trash gets into the fish environment and trappes the fish,

Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water; and, in almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to the natural biological communities.