The Importance Of The Water Cycle

Human impact on the cycling matter in ecosystems can change a lot of things. Humans can either help or hurt things. The carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles are the three cycles of matter in ecosystems. What are these cycles? How do humans effect each one of these individual cycles? What are some examples of humans effecting these cycles?

Water is probably the most important resource we as people have. Humans can survive without food for several weeks, but without water we would die in less than a week. On a slightly less dramatic note, millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing, irrigating crops, and cooling industrial processes, not to mention leisure industries such as swimming pools and water-sports centers. Despite our dependence on water, we use it as a dumping ground for all sorts of waste, and do very little to protect the water supplies we have.

Water is all around us. This substance is of high importance to every living thing which is on planet earth. As much as we consider water to be life and the most important substance, still we don’t seem to appreciate it very much, as it is being wasted in such great amounts. Everyone believes that water will always be around but not taking into account that the majority of the water on planet earth are not for human consumption. Human beings can only survive on consuming fresh water. The percentage of

The hydrological cycle is where water is stored in places like oceans and ponds, and then evaporated. Next, the water is condensed. Finally, water is rained down as precipitation and accumulates in ponds and oceans. This cycle continues repeatedly. Human activities that are detrimental to this cycle

One of the primary earth systems is the water, or hydrological cycle. This cycle represents the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the earth. It is a natural process that, when balanced, regulates the available water on the planet in a way that is not only relatively consistent, but overtime will allow for a balanced ecosystem. The water cycle, in general, takes water from one reservoir or holding area (say clouds) and allows it to move into another through various processes. The actual cycle moves continually through the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. The water cycle also helps regulate and control temperature, which in turn helps regulate weather patterns. The basic water cycle may be viewed as a four stage model:

Water has been around for almost as long the Earth has been around, approximately 4.6 billion years ago. In some shape or form, water has continued to be an important resource since the formation of Earth and continues to be today as well. Water being a finite abundant substance, it covers up approximately 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. It is without a doubt an essential resource needed to sustain life on Earth. Nonetheless, not only is water an important resource for all living organisms for subsistence, but it also serves other purposes: agriculture purposes, medical and health purposes, tourism and much more. However, with the recent emergence of the issue surrounding

Is there anything better that a cool glass of water on a hot day or a swim in a clear blue lake? We need water for drinking, and we need it for recreation. We use it in a thousand ways. Without it, we could not survive. Yet with more and more people on our planet, we are using a lot and also using it carelessly and that is effecting our everyday living.

Water is continuously moving and changing states from liquid to gas (vapor) and solid (ice, snow, and hail). The water cycle describes the movement of all water on Earth. The Earth's water is constantly moving through this cycle, which has no beginning and no end.

Water is considered as an essential for human existence. We all can survive without food for some day but no one can live without water at least two days. Human body consists of 70% percent of water and our globe is covered by 69.9% percent of water. But unfortunately the useable fresh water is just 2.5% out of it. Water is a social good, water is an economic good, water has ecological value and water has religious, moral and cultural value.

I make sure I drink a sustainable amount of water on daily basis. By drinking this water, I had some impact on the it’s cycle by removing some certain amount, but in other hand, the water is sustaining my existence. Another impact I am having on water cycle is by using water for cooking in my home. Water is removed from its cycle during my cooking activities, going with prepared food, and this in turn sustain my existence as well. I use water for bathing every day, and the impact is the withdrawal of water from its cycle, and run to the drainage, where is it contaminated for no use. Besides, in the toilet, water is use by me for flushing defecates to the drainage, and which impact turns water to a mess, of no use. Also, my life style of often washing and cleaning of clothes, plates, and many house chores had great impact on the water cycle. My cleaning activities removed water from its cycle, and turn the same to a useless element, after mixed with soap and dry off on the

In today’s society, the idea of a limited resource is not a foreign concept. Most people understand that eventually humans will use up many of these resources, such as fossil fuels, and they will cease to exist. However, very rarely does a conversation about limited resources get started over the water. While water itself is not a limited resource, clean drinkable water is becoming scarcer as people continue to use excess water. The documentary “Last Call at the Oasis” highlights how precious water is to survival and just how much miss use of water occurs in the United States alone. Even though the United States has gone down the wrong path with its water consumption methods, it may not be too late to recover. With the proper systems and education in place, the chances of delaying a water crisis increase exponentially.

From the time the earth was formed, water have been endlessly circulating. This circulation is known as the hydrologic cycle. Groundwater is part of this continuous

Biogeochemical cycles are important to the sustainability of all life. Chemical elements necessary for the growth and reproduction of all organisms have a limited quantity on earth at any one time, other than the occasional meteor that brings with it new matter. It is therefore important that the recycling of these chemical elements is efficient. Autotrophs are the basis of almost all ecosystems. The rate that autotrophs produce and transfer energy is vital to the capacity of organisms that can inhabit these ecosystems. To understand the rates in which certain species’ leaves decay and release the energy stored within them can demonstrate how quickly the energy becomes available to organisms in higher trophic levels.

Did you know that humans have access to only 1 PERCENT of the world’s freshwater? That is about 7.4 BILLION people sharing that 1 percent of usable water. We use about 80-100 gallons of water EACH day. Although you may think “oh well, I’ll just use less water”, you know that’s not going to happen. You need to understand that your actions are contributing to this water crisis. For an example, jobs and our education plays a role in this by grabbing attention whether or not it uses water and because of the popularity, no one really cares about the disadvantages anymore. There are certain water issues that contribute to this water disappearance like road salt, littering, plastic water bottle usage and MANY more. Not only are we

People place the water as a free gift of nature to human, make full use of it and enjoy it. But since the middle of the 20th century, the water became scarce, there is