Summary: The article Stormwater Runoff is about unfiltered water that can harm the earth. This water travels throughout the earth in the ground, streams, lakes, oceans, roads, parking lots, rooves, etc., picking up chemicals, pollutants, and more. This can cause a lot of harm to the earth. All of this starts with the water cycle. This is where the water gets recycled. This process starts with rain falling on the earth, then into the watersheds. This is where the water will be recycled, in the watersheds going through the water cycle. A watershed is changed every day where the water flows underground and becomes filtered and feeds into streams, lakes, sounds, and oceans. But when the filtration processes are destroyed, the rain quickly runs in storm drains, …show more content…
Overall, these problems are having a huge effect on the earth.
Personal Thoughts/Reaction and Response: The article Stormwater Runoff is about unfiltered water that can harm the earth. I believe what the article had stated was correct and that this “runoff” can be very harmful and destructive in many ways. This article discussed something that is relevant to society. It discussed that stormwater runoff goes everywhere, pollutants are abundant in our society, closures of place due to pollution problems are occurring, and that these problems indicate the need for programs that address the control of non-point source pollution. These are relevant to society because we have these problems in our everyday lives and this happens frequently. I learned many new things that I didn’t know before. They are about what stormwater runoff is, where it goes, how it affects us, how it affects the environment, and what it can pick up, such as pollutants. I am not very familiar with stormwater runoff, therefore most of this information was new to me. I knew about the water cycle, pollution, and