Speech On Everglades Water

Random question: By a show of hands how many of you have drunk water this week? All hands should be up. Okay now how many of you know that you're drinking Everglades water? For this next part I’m going to need the classes participation. I’m gonna give everyone a number if you’re a number three I would like you to stand up. (goes around the class giving numbers) The people standing up represent 1 out of three Floridians, yes we do live in florida, that rely on the Everglades for their water supply. On a grand scale, according to the Everglades Park, the everglades provides drinking water for more than 7 million Floridians. 7 million is a large number so we must place into perspective just exactly what toll this has taken on the everglades. If we look to the board we see that over the years the Everglades has went from this to this. A drastic change as we can see that more than half of the Everglades has disappeared. Along with the disappearance of its land and water we see that animals have been effected to. The Everglades is an environmentally diverse location that holds many different habitats and in those habitats lie native, invasive, and endangered species. Throughout this speech you will learn just what exactly is happening to the precious animals of the Everglades.

Fact: The everglades can be condensed into 8 distinct well known habitats that have little to no boundaries between them. We have the tropical hardwood hammock, pine rocklands, mangrove forests, coastal lowlands, freshwater sloughs, freshwater marine prairie, cypress, and the florida bay. I know that’s a lot to take in but take in a deep breath we’re not going to tackle each and everyone of those just the four main ones. If you remember anything from those four names just remember these big four the sawgrass marshes, pinelands, hammocks, and