Micheal Boor
GPH 381
27 April 18
Budding Professional Opinion Assignment
Water is one of the critical pieces to ensuring the survival of the planet, possibly the most important piece. Humanity’s need for water is the one thing that links all life together. Water is used to support human life in a variety of ways to include; drinking, bathing, growing produce and supporting a healthy ecosystem. As the world population continues to increase, if the current rate of usage is maintained, then more water is being used than can be replenished through rain water or the melting of snow and ice (Sayles 2017). Common sense measures need to be implemented to facilitate the continued access to water because once it is gone there will be no easy method to replace water. In the natural resources lecture, the discussion is raised that there is a theory of less resources being used by people residing in a city as opposed to a rural or suburban environment, but it does not
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If preventative measures are not taken it could result in less water vapor available to enter the atmosphere which would then result in less rain fall, leading to less ground or surface water available to evaporate thus continuing the cycle when the existing water resources are overdrawn. To touch on other examples of how this precious resource is being damaged includes fresh water pollution by dumping chemicals or raw sewage instead of following the proper disposal and processing procedures. A more concerning example was addressed in the NY Times article in the renewable resources lecture, which talks about how much water modern processing plants waste trying to produce just one gallon of ethanol (Sayles,