Water Pollution: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

cruising through those small towns with souvenirs shops to each side, seafood restaurants mixed in and public access trails to the beaches spotted along the route you will notice that the buildings directly on the beach are on stilts.

The issue that has to do with this bill is the environment. This bill from 2015 says that water and air pollution is harmful to the Florida atmosphere. The bill says the “public policy of this to conserve waters,” and that “air pollution control programs” are now considered necessities in Florida.

In 2002 President George W. Bush and Florida governor Jeb Bush at the time, signed an agreement of $8 billion for a 30-year federal plan to repair the Everglades. The agreement aimed to at least partially restore the natural flow of water through the everglades. The restoration project was handed over to the entity that was responsible for the problem in the first place: the federal government, and, in particular, the Army Corps of

The ocean is a vast and beautiful body of water. It seems as if nothing could ever take away from that beauty. Sadly that is not the reality, the ocean takes on more than 8 million metric tons of plastic waste every year (weforum.org). This causes many marine animals to die and ecosystems to vanish. This plastic and contamination can lead into the lovely state of Florida. Contamination, over fishing and farming can cause Florida marine life to die off and can cause red tides to last longer and be more harmful.

In the course of the past year or so, the world has under gone immense natural disasters. Including but not limited to: hurricanes, tsunamis, wildfires, blizzards, and more. These unfortunate events all have a source of which they occurred. At the same time, the world’s oceans have under gone less noticeable but apparent changes as well. These changes include temperature variations, heightened acidification, intensified salinity, and more. However, a specific issue is the effect of Indiana’s activities impacting ocean life through nutrient and sediment pollution. There is a multifarious number of reasons that could affect ocean life, even in Indiana, which one will discuss throughout this report. One will describe sediment runoff, the

Ocean Conservancy is a non profit organization that works to reduce the ocean pollution and ultimately protecting the ocean along with every life that is affected by the ocean. The Ocean Conservancy was founded in 1972, which started as a small company but has since expanded and evolved to not only fight for the ocean but to educate people about harmful effects of pollution within the ocean. In my research I found that the explosion BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in 2010, was a peak for the Ocean Conservancy in media exposure and coverage and since then has steadily decreased. In this decline the perception of the Ocean Conservancy has become something synonymous with hopelessness.

Speech Preparation Outline Template Speech Title: Ocean Pollution and its effects on Florida Wildlife I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: What is the one thing we all have in common in this room- We all live in Florida. And Florida is known for its beaches and wildlife. It is currently estimated that there is 100 million tons of plastic is in our oceans, and the impacts on local marine wildlife include fatalities from ingestion, starvation, suffocation, infection, drowning, and entanglement.

Areas Needing to Create Community Resilience: The King’s Beach Water Quality Project addresses King’s Beach which is an area in danger of flooding according to ‘Coastal Climate Change Study Final Report’ conducted by the town of Swampscott. The towns of Lynn and Swampscott Massachusetts are also classified as flood zones according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), allowing the location of the project qualify an area needing to create community resilience.

Water is essential for life. Humans are made up of 50 to 75 per cent of water and can only last a few days without it. We use it for agriculture, power plants, and domestic irrigation. In the United States, about 410 billion gallons of water is withdrawn daily, about 85% being freshwater. The most easily accessible source of water is surface water which is from lakes, rivers, and streams. However, only about 3% of Earth’s water is freshwater and the cost of water around the world varies greatly. In the U.S., the biggest problem is in contamination. The EPA defines water contamination as anything physical, chemical, biological, or radioactive that is harmful to human health or degrades taste or color of water. About 5,300 water systems were

What is Water pollution? Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies. Water pollution occurs when pollutants are directly or indirectly discharged into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds. Water pollution affects plants and other living things. (http://www.nrdc.org/water/). Did you know that around 70% of waste is poured or dumped into many bodies of water and therefore no usable to humans nor animals. Why are we using the waterways as our trash can? In this paper I want to discuss the different ways people pollute our Coastal Waterways and the extreme effects that it has on not only humans by a chain of food supply to other species.

Imagine waking up with a brown fog in the air and your unnatural tasting drinking water is the only water you have. If ocean pollution continues, also known as marine pollution, continues this could become an everyday reality. This form of pollution is caused by dumping waste in the ocean, toxic chemicals, oil spills and a variety of other ways. Marine pollution is deadly for various reasons and has many negative affects, including its effect on human’s food supply, hurting our marine animals, and ruining our oceans quality. Every human, plant, and all living creatures depend on these bodies of water for air, water, food and many more. “The oceans are an important part of the

However, with the population rising dramatically demand for resources have also increased. Companies producing these products for their consumers built factories not knowing its pollution is harming the environment. Although effects of pollution is evident on land, the ocean, especially areas near the coastline, have also taken a huge toll during this process. According to the article, “Caribbean coral reefs ‘will be lost within 20 years’ without protection”, Jessica Aldred, the author, states,” Region’s corals have declined by more than 50%.” (Aldred 2) implying that immediate attention is required due to pollution in the Caribbean. Furthermore, the cause of this pollution originates from tourists and citizens who carelessly throws trash into the ocean; the pollution can also come from hotels and building whose sewage is dumped along the coast. Tourism also increase the chances that a careless swimmer and or diver play, move, and take the coral. Some steps have been taken such as warning signs, but in order to stop this completely higher authority must be involved. Effects of pollution to coral reefs can be devastating; for example, it exposes the corals to more bacterias

Water pollution has been an issue for decades here on Earth. Wildlife that lives in or near the ocean are being harmed because of all the trash and waste in the water. For Example: 70% of industrial waste are being dumped into water. Because of all this industrial water, 64% of lakes are not clean because of water pollution, 44% of streams are not clean because of pollution, and 30% of bays are not clean because of water pollution. In 1978, the Amoco Cadiz oil platform spilled over 220,000 tons of oil off the coast of France. This resulted in the death of many species of wildlife around the world. When humans make big mistakes causing natural disasters, the wildlife are the ones that usually pay the price. The people of the United States can reduce water pollution by picking up other people’s trash that is left on the ground, stopping people from draining oil from their vehicles into sources of water, and getting rid of the use of pesticides and other fertilizers.

Coral reefs are one our greatest protections in Florida. They provide a huge protections against storm surges from the ocean. Coral reefs are huge host for fish and sea life. In order to help sustain this life and our shores we need to be taking care of our reefs. We could benefit our coral reefs by simply putting less pollution into the ocean. It would also be a great idea to reduce how much we fish coral reefs and instead try to spread out the fishing across other areas. Managing our water cleanliness is the largest point that needs to be acted upon. This is due to us living in Florida and we have a huge affect on what is put into the water, because we are so close to it. Instead of letting all the toxic waste we let soak into the

They make up a vast, diverse marine ecosystem. Without them, many underwater species would have no home, no food, and no security. Local residents and visitors would find themselves without essential marine resources. Research has shown us that damage to coral reefs can be naturally occurring. In such cases, there are few options we have for combating their demise. As with many other environmental problems we face, climate change plays a large part in coral reef damage. This is something that must be taken care of on a massive scale; and possibly over a very long period of time. However, maintenance of the coral reefs is possible. Their destruction by way of human influence, however, can be prevented. With proper education, divers and tourists can be made aware of what threat they pose to the reefs when they come in contact with them. Other beach-goers can be made aware of what beach pollution does to the water and its life forms. Regulations can be put in place to see that industry causes as little damage as possible to our oceans and reefs. The DEP, and other such agencies, is around to care for the reefs and attempt to reverse any damages done to them. If it weren’t for the coral reefs, Florida simply would not be