The North Raccoon River

The Chattahoochee River is located in Georgia and flows southwesterly towards Alabama. Evidence indicates that humans have been inhabitants of the Chattahoochee River for an extremely long period.

“For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we are rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it,” said Marcus Samuelsson. According to the Des Moines Register, “The federal Environmental Protection Agency is adding $12.3 million to a loan fund that will help pay for drinking water systems or improve efficiency.” There are obvious water quality issues in Iowa, and people around the state including farmers and the governor are trying to help.

I conducted a survey of Pulaski county residents to get their opinion about the Pulaski county water supply. The purpose of the survey is to get others viewpoint of Pulaski County drinking water so that we can improve our waters system. In the Article “Arkansas Rivers is Too Polluted to Touch” written on April 24, 2000, it states “The river is fairly clean as it flows into Wichita, but by the time it leaves the city, the water is so dirty it is not safe for wading, fishing and touching, said Tom Stiles, chief of the office of planning and prevention at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The river also is not safe for canoeing, kayaking or water skiing.” Have Arkansas Rivers improved within 14 years? This question will help us to see how far Arkansas Rivers have come since the year 2000. According to Carl Safina in “Song for the Blue Ocean” he discussed how pollution can interfere with not only wildlife and aquatic animals, but humans as well. Pollution can get into our water system causing bacteria and diseases. These waters are the same that runs in our faucets and pipelines. I will discuss resent studies of central Arkansas water quality later in the survey report.

They observed the clarity of the water, dissolved oxygen, pH, run, pool, riffle, odor, depth, and substrate. The clarity of the water was 71cm which means the clarity of the water is fine because 71cm is in the middle of the turbidity tube. The amount dissolved oxygen is 12 which is the best amount of D.O. The pH was 8 which means the water quality is good. The odor was musky. The depth of the run was 22cm. The substrate was rocky which is good because the rocks filter the water. All of this data leads you to the conclusion that the Portage River has excellent water quality.

The amount of Iowa water bodies listed as impaired is very high, but there are also many bodies that

The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South, is a major river in the southern United States of America.[2] The river was named for the red-bed country of its watershed. It is one of several rivers with that name. Although it was once a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Red River is now a tributary of the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi that flows separately into the Gulf of Mexico. It is connected to the Mississippi River by the Old River Control Structure.

A big reason why Iowa struggles with water quality is due to the high amount of farming. Farming alone doesn't hurt the rivers. It is the fertilizer they put into the crops to kill weeds. The fertilizers from the fields run off into the nearby streams, then continuing into the major rivers which cause large amount of nitrates and other harmful material to present. In his article “ The North Raccoon: a river of controversy and undiscovered beauty,” Mike Kelin (2016) states that “The utility claims that farming practices in the watershed, which drains 3,625 square miles, contribute an excess of nitrates as the river flows to Des Moines.”

The Colorado River is a very important water source for the Southwest and its people. But I think the river is most important for the farmers.

High amounts of nitrate from agricultural field watershed contaminate the groundwater, creating a consumption hazard. A nitrate level greater than 10 mg/L causes negative health effects for the local population and aquatic organisms.

River, land and natural resources are important parts for people’s daily lives, and its configurations represent how people affected the environment over 150 years. With the improvement of technology, people are able to utilize these technologies to remold the river levee; however, the impacts that came from people also brought some significant changes to the area.

The average yield of total nitrogen between the two rivers differ. The Red River has a slightly higher nitrogen yield in the early data set (1992-1994) than the Sweetwater River (Figure 2A). Whereas, nitrogen yield in the Red River is significantly lower than the Sweetwater in 2005-2007 (Figure 2A). Comparing the two datasets corresponding to years, the Red River showed significant decrease in the average yield of nitrogen (Figure 2A). However, the Sweetwater nitrogen yield has dramatically increased since the earlier data collection (Figure 2A).

Iowa is known to having a water problem for years according to Art Cullen, a local resident and a writer for “The Salt Lake Times”. The main reason that lead towards the nitrate problem are watersheds. Which led to drainage districts being sued affirms Cullen.(1) To attempt to fix that problem Governor Terry Branstad wants to take $4.7 billion of the schools taxes to devote it to fixing the water problem.(1) According to Cullen, Branstad presented a study towards the public from “highly respected” economists from Iowa stating that while going forth with the plan will “create $692 million in economic activity and 2,800 jobs annually”. These were the same economists that made the watershed and this is one of their ways of fixing the mess. The economists have made many other inventions like bioreactors, wetland conversions, and cover crops.(1) In which Cullen agrees that they all work “until you consider the shallow lakes in Northwest Iowa are being converted to marshes” plus he says Iowa can not afford to build enough of the inventions to farm as much as the farmers want because of the cost in which is more than what Governor Branstad is taking from school taxes.(1)However, Cullen agrees otherwise,

Have you ever read a book, then watched the movie on it and wanted to throw the book at the director’s face and tell them to actually read the book? This is what happened when I read a novel titled Where The Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher, and then watched the movie on it. In 1927, in Kingdom County, Vermont, a large dam is to be built; however, Noel Lord, a logger and cedar-oil harvester, won't give up his lifetime lease on the land. The dam company increases its offer of cash, but Noel refuses time after time. He asks for a trade; the white pines for his lease. Noel, meanwhile, talks with his wife, Bangor, about them moving to Oregon and buying a saw mill. She

There are many diseases that can be found in our water we drink and use on a daily basis. Since 2004 the water we are provided has contained illegal concentrations of chemicals. Populations Living in agricultural areas typically have the highest exposures to drinking water contaminated with nitrate. The U.S. is fortunate to have one of the safest public water drinking supplies.

While the Niger River and the Western Sudan remained key geographical factors of the Mali and Songhai kingdoms, the thirst for more resources and larger trade networks caused each kingdom to expand its territory. The Niger River was an useful and efficient way to transport goods across the kingdom, as the river passed through many major cities such as Djenne, Timbuktu, and Gao. However, without outside trade, the river was only useful for circulating resources that were already in the kingdom, such as gold. Given that not every resource was found naturally in West Africa, the empire had to trade with the outside to obtain these materials. One example of this is salt, which is a human necessity. Since it wasn’t naturally found in the kingdoms,