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Yifang Dang
Jennifer Bray
English 1301.481
March 21, 2011
Rough Draft of Water Pollution
The development of the era resulted in a contaminated environment. Although human
beings have no intention of doing that, the primary cause of this situation is human beings.
The most obvious and grievous contamination is water pollution. It happens not only on the
local level but worldwide. People contaminated water many ways and have been unconscious
for centuries. To ameliorate the qualification of water, there are governments and interest
groups who try to deal with it.
There are many elements of contaminating water and the most significant one is
Chemical contaminations; such as salt, biofuel, pesticides, firefighting foam, diesel spill,
mine wastes. In one hand, water is contaminated by living wastes which might be produced
such as salting on the high ways. According to the article "Salting Highways Contaminates
Water", says “‘Chloride concentrations are increasing at a rate that threatens the availability
of freshwater in the Northeast,’ warns Lawrence E. Band, chair and Voit Gilmore
distinguished professor of geography”
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By farming`, according to the article "Biofuel Corn Contaminates Water", the result
that “A study of water sources found that those near fields that practice continuous-com
rotations had higher levels of nitrogen, fungicides, and phosphorous than corn-soybean
rotations” Chemical contamination also affected water by agriculture in other ways. In the
article of Franklin Hoke, it reported the result of a pesticide test of water in the United States.
The result showed that most of wells in America were less or more contaminated by
pesticides Water is not safe in farms, however; it is not safe in cities either. In every building,
there are fire extinguishers, however, the fire fighting foam will contaminate water.
According to the article "Probe: Did 3M firefighting foam contaminate drinking water?" it
reports that water was tested in 15 Minnesota cities, and water was contaminated by the
firefighting foam. It said, “The foam is flushed into storm sewers or left to seep into the
ground, raising the possibility that drinking water has been affected” (Meersman 1).
On the other hand, water was polluted by factories. Oil spill could pollute water, for
example, in the article "Diesel Spill Contaminates China's Yellow River Tributaries", the
author stated that two rivers in China “were seriously contaminated after some 150 cubic
meters of diesel leaked early Wednesday from a ruptured pipeline”. And fortunately, the
situation was under control ("Diesel Spill Contaminates China's Yellow River Tributaries" 1).
Water is also contaminated by mine wastes, as strongly complained in “Out of sight, Out of
Mine: Ocean Dumping of Mine Wastes”, the mine tailing was a big part of industrial waste,
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and it hurt the lives of the shallow marine populations so that they had to restrict their
consumptions of water. The author declaimed that the problem has been more and more
noticed so that people who do not know the issue yet should be aware of the situation
(Amanda Reichelt-Brushett Moran, Robert, and Roy Young 1).
In local level, there is contaminated water in Texas which is …
In worldwide lever, …
There are interest groups who care about water pollution and try to appeal people to be
aware and protect our living source.
For example, one interest group is the European
Environment Agency which “is an agency of the European Union. Our task is to provide
sound, independent information on the environment. We are a major information source for
those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy,
and also the general public. Currently, the EEA has 32 member countries” (“Who We Are” 1)
(how to write a citation of a website???) From the picture in the EEA website, the overall
effect of the design is to tell people the ways how water get contaminated so that they may
care about how to reduce the pollution. It is a little bit colorful and busy to show the methods
of how water gets contaminated. The color black of the arrows expressed the water is being
polluted. But overall, the colors were light and mixed gray which showed people the current
situation of the environment.(explain how important the colors are so that they can get a little
bit of what your point is) The arrows which showed the orientations of the nitrogen go to
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which would get people’s attention and the audience would be students of geography, citizens,
and publics.
Another interest group is The Coastal Conservation Association. According to the
website of The Coastal Conservation Association, "The Coastal Conservation Association is
a non- profit marine conservation organization. It is comprised of 15 coastal state chapters
spanning the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic seaboard"("What is CCA").This group is
concerned about my issue because it is a group associate with overfishing which has
similarity results with water pollution. According to the website of CCA, "CCA began in
1977 after drastic commercial overfishing along the Texas coast decimated redfish and
speckled trout populations"("What is CCA"). Overfishing decreases the population of fish.
Similarly, water pollution leads to a decreasing of fish population as well. Their standing is
"Save the Redfish" so that they are concerned about the habitat of those fish("What is CCA").
Therefore, if the water was polluted, the group would like to claim the effect of water
pollution on fish. Also, this best illustrates the group's position. The members of CCA
formulate the forum like a newspaper which is easy for the members to keep track on the
latest steps or plans they are cared about.
I liked your essay on water pollution and how you kept your personal views out of it.
There is one thing I did not see and that is your conclusion. You might want to end this
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strong and wrap it all up nicely ! Sorry I forgot to say that I also did not see the opposing
view water pollution and why is it a waste of time? Or why people do not do anything to stop
it. n
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Works Cited
"Biofuel Corn Contaminates Water." USA Today Magazine 138.2775 (2009): 14. Points of
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"Diesel Spill Contaminates China's Yellow River Tributaries." Arabia 2000 (2010): Points of
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Hoke, Franklin. "Pesticides contaminate U.S. wells." Environment 33.1 (1991): 22. Points of
View Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 27 Feb. 2011.
Meersman, Tom. "Probe: Did 3M firefighting foam contaminate drinking water?." Star
Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) 06 Feb. 2009: Points of View Reference Center. EBSCO.
Web. 27 Feb. 2011.
Moran, Robert, Amanda Reichelt-Brushett, and Roy Young. "Out of sight, Out of Mine:
Ocean Dumping of Mine Wastes." World Watch 22.2 (2009): 30. Points of View
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"Salting Highways Contaminates Water." USA Today Magazine 134.2727 (2005): 3. Points
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