Ecology: USA Water Resources
Water is the most important life element to humans after oxygen. Without water human can live only up to 3 days after which they would die. Today water represents a great and profitable industry for the fact that the producers of the main US soft drinks need water, as well as the ordinary citizen who use water for their household needs, let alone for the lawn use. In the following essay I am going to speak about the water industry as being overvalued with respect to the green (social) economy ba ...
Ecology: Purification of Sea Water
In the late 20th century, more than 8,000,000 cubic m (2,112,000,000 gallons) of fresh water were produced each day by several thousand desalination plants throughout the world. Distillation processes are used in about half of all the plants and account for roughly three-quarters of the world’s desalted water. Most of the other plants employ membrane processes. The world’s desalination capacity expanded rapidly during the 1970s and ‘80s as the oil-rich countries of the Middle East improved their ...
Ecology: Global Warming
The warming also increases the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere. Thomas R, Karl explains that “the increased availability of water vapor in the atmosphere also leads to a significant increase in the energy available to drive storms and associated weather fronts, therefore affecting rainfall rates, precipitation amounts, storm intensity, and related runoff.”(Karl, Tomas). The loss of Brazil’s rainforests also causes heavier rainfall and stronger storms in various parts of the world. Since ...
