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    The Perfect Storm

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    It predicts that for example phosphates that are mined will be gone by 2050 leading to a large deficit on food production. Furthermore, there are key water resources that have been shown to be used above its rate of regeneration, which means that freshwater resources are also at risk. This culmination of these resources deficits through usage are what is known as the perfect storm with some reference to an increase in resources as well due to an increasing population. The major resource limitations

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    The Need and Implementation of Wastewater Usage Introduction Water is one of the most abundant substances on Earth, but the vast majority of it cannot be used for human or industrial use because of the salt content. With cost effective desalination processes several years away, we are limited to fresh water resources such as lakes, reservoirs, and aquifers, but these resources, in many areas, are being used drained at rates faster than they can replenish, or are too difficult to reach. Agriculture

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    “The most severe threat we face today is a shortage of water”, a statement that sounds too absurd to be believed, but is it? How can we run out of water? Even though almost 70% of the earth is covered in water, unfortunately only 3% of it is usable. According to the World Water Forum (WWF), 1.1 billion people don’t have access to clean water and 2.7 billion people suffer from water shortages with the number increasing year by year. This occurs because of a combination of over-farming and the pollution

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    Speech #4: Persuasive 2 Speech Outlines Guide Complete this form. Copy the entire contents of the form. Paste it into a new document. Save the new document as “lastnameHW7.” Upload it to the Week 7 Homework Dropbox. Name: Micheal Boor WORKING OUTLINE Complete this outline using complete sentences. Topic: Water Conservation in the U.S. Specific purpose statement: To persuade my audience to take action in order to conserve one of the most finite and precious resources we have in the U.S. Thesis

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    households (Stark, USA Today).” Mexico already has seen in the past few decades the rapid decline of water coming from the Colorado River, the nation’s seventh-longest river (See Image 2). Although the coastline provides potential for creating freshwater from the ocean, the process would be far too expensive, especially when compared to the current source. Image 2. The Colorado River can be found dry in Mexico. Photo was taken at the Gulf of California, also known as Sea of Cortez (National

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    Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure,” and there are about 750 million peop6le who would support him on that statement. Is it fair that the people who do not have clean water to drink, or wash with everyday must use water that is contaminated with copper, lead, nickel and selenium? For an example, take Canada and India. Two very different countries, from opposite sides of the world. They barely have any similarities, especially when it comes to the amount

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    Why Does It Rain?

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    about that. Therefore, they stopped providing the fresh water to humans and left the ocean water salty. Sure the humans could boil the salt water, but it wasn’t nearly fast enough for the growing population. No matter how much the humans begged for freshwater, Zeus would not budge. The land stayed like that for a long time, until a young hero of the name

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    The boeing 777 sped toward the earth at speeds increasing from five hundred miles per hour with a top speed of five hundred and ninty. Jim, the pilot was working the controls, he was an experienced airman who had over seventy-five thousand hours of flight experience, that is about three thousand one hundred and twenty five days of flight, while Josh his co-pilot was just a rookie airman with a third of the hours as Jim. The plane had three hundred and seventy five passengers on board, which were

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    The environmental degradation of natural resources, such as fresh water resources and fish or sea live stocks have become burning issue of potentially violent conflict between the nations. There are numerous historical examples that related to this issue. For example, the Ethiopian decision to store Nile water behind the walls of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have brought ongoing tension between the Egypt, the Ethiopia and Sudan. The second characteristic is the relationship between environment

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    Recently a series of natural disasters, one of these being a tragic flood, has led to the arrival of a new, unknown specie, now formally known as a Goldfinch Retriever. This new combination of half bird, half dog was able to survive the flood by creating a new home in the remaining treetops. Fellow scientists Hannah Tokarz and Jenna Pearson believe that this special breed of bird originally feasted on meat, but lacked advanced flying skills. Those who had the stronger ability to fly survived the

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