If all of the water in the world could be poured into one bucket, only one teaspoon of that water would be drinkable. ... For most industrial plants, the cooling system uses the most water and discharges the most water. ... The NRDC suggests that the price of water plays an important factor in water usage. Canada has the lowest price of water, which could explain why they have the highest water usage. Bottled water is close to 3,000 times as much money as one would pay for tap water. ...

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With the natural resources depleting, and pollution and global warming increasing, new and better sources of energy is needed. ... Although these are very good sources, they emit various types of pollution including greenhouse gasses which cause global warming. ... The only exhaust is water. ... Flowing water has a lot of energy. ... We use energy everyday, whether it is to turn on a light, or to drive to school, but the energy we use causes lots of global environmental issues like global warming and pollution. ...

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Those who depend on ground water for drinking water, run the risk of consuming chemicals that could potentially endanger their lives. ... Another identified problem concerning pollution of ground water includes the contamination of water by methane. ... On the subject of water pollution, what becomes of the water that is used in the process of pressurizing rocks? Each fracking site uses up to 1-8 million gallons of water (Fox). ... Therefore it has to be disposed of through evaporation and water treatment. ...

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Another environmental concern is the contamination of water. ... Pennsylvania had racked up a bill of $5 billion in order to clean the pollution from the mines. ... That causes contamination to the water like that in the Ohio River. ... Fracking has also been a source of local air pollution. ... Colorado is one such case where they had not experienced major air pollution until the use of fracking started. ...

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In-stream devices make use of the kinetic energy harnessed in water in order to power turbines. ... Tidal lagoons are most similar to barrages that trap high water and release it to generate power. ... Also, unlike fossil fuels, using the wave to create power creates no harmful byproducts, such as gas, waste, and pollution. ... Additionally, fossil fuels lead to extreme pollution, while tidal energy is much cleaner. Wave power is better for stopping the pollution from cars, it uses naturally occurring processes. ...

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According to the article "Air Pollution" from national geographic society, human activities in the past 150 years such as emissions of cars, planes, power plants by burning of fossil fuels have increased carbon-dioxide gas level higher than they have been in the past thousands of years in the atmosphere. ... In the article, "Causes and Effects of Industrial Pollution," the author talks about how industries contaminate the drinking water, fresh air and the soil. ... Factories use a large amount of water to mix with chemicals for use in manufacturing, but they release that water in riv...

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Building a dam across a river or stream can increase the energy of flowing water. ... Hydro energy does not cause pollution, it seems ideal; however, there are some problems. ... Another major disadvantages of water-power is by harvesting water upstream for large amounts of electricity, the downstream of the river will suffer heavily during flood season and create catastrophe if the water flows are not being monitor. Dams will need to release water to allow water to escape upstream during flood season, and by doing so will triple the water force flowing downstream and destroy the environment d...

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The majority of power plants involve large dams that flood vast areas of land to provide water storage. ... Nuclear power plants cause thermal pollution, the possibility of accidental leaks, and storing radioactive wastes safely for long periods. ... Also, if radioactive wastes are released before the materials have broken down, they could contaminate our food, water, and air.4 In some types of nuclear power plants, fission in the reactor core heats a supply of water. The hot water then heats a second supply of water, making it steam. ... Wind farms, are now producing pollution-free, sustai...

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The Run-of-river plants use little, if any, stored water to provide water flow through the turbines. ... Large dams can store several years" worth of water. Then there is pumped storage which reuses water. ... Hydropower plants provide inexpensive electricity and produce no pollution. ... Like more pollution credits that they could sell off to other corporations who need them or they could give them tax cuts for producing clean power. ...

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As a result of the equipment and methods used to extract the oil, high levels of pollution are released into the atmosphere, disturbing nearby ecosystems. ... The extraction of oil from the sea floor releases many harmful materials and particles into the water. One such substance is drill mud, which consists of mainly clay, water or mineral oil and chemical additives. ... It has been estimated that "A single offshore rig emits the same quantity of air pollution as 7000 cars driving 50 miles per day." ... Many times, bi-products of the drilling are released into the water. ...

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And finally, the amount of pollution that these actions, and even many of the actions of everyday citizens such as you and I, are quite literally killing the Earth. ... Fracking is the process of drilling deep down inside of the earth, before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand, and chemicals are then injected into the rock at high pressures, which then allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well. ... This negatively impacts the animals that previously inhabited these frozen land masses by taking away their homes and the very grou...

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Acid Rain: The Environment, Its Trees, and Solutions to the Problem Famous inventor, Buckminster Fuller said,Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. ... Once these gases are released into the atmosphere they react with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form acidic compounds. ... Pollution is already out of control. ... Acid deposition is a problem caused by pollution that can destroy our resources such as trees, water, and animal life. ...

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An Increase in population in urban areas results in increased consumption of water, energy, food, land and domestic goods. ... Pollution Pollution is another major impact of human activities on the environment. ... The renewable natural resources such as solar power, wind power, water power and geothermal energy can partly substitute the non-renewable resources such as oil, gas and coal. ...

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This pollution and carbon emissions has adverse effects on the environment and has started to cause climate change throughout the world. ... The plant can generate up to 22.5 million kilowatts which is the same generating capacity of fifteen nuclear reactors. 1.3 million people were relocated from the 1,045 km reservoir area where the dam was to be built and it is estimated that another 100,000 may be relocated in the next three years due to geological risks, such as landslides due to the change in water levels in the reservoir. ... For instance, hydro-development causes environmental degrad...

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The heat from burning wood can be used for a number of processes from heating water to smelting ore. ... The very nature of biomass energy requires that it be burned and even if the organic material is low-carbon, it will still emit some pollution and carbon emissions. ... Magnesium can also be mixed with water which also produces heat and can be used to boil water, produce steam, and drive a turbine to generate electricity. The by-products of this process are water and magnesium oxide, which itself can be recycle back into magnesium by the use of a solar laser. ... Supporters of the magnesium...

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Ethanol is low in reactivity and high in oxygen content, making it an effective tool in reducing the levels of ozone pollution. ... The contamination of drinking water is less of an issue for ethanol because it is less toxic to humans than other alternative fuels in equal concentrations. ... A critical limitation of ethanol as an alternative fuel is its role as a detergent, which has the ability to absorb water. Accumulated sediment and water sludge in storage tanks, pipelines and in the fuel tanks of vehicles could clog filters and create other operational problems5. ... Countries that have a...

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This heating causes underground pools of water to become heated and they can form geysers. ... A resource that is being used right now, hydropower, can be produced from almost any moving body of water. ... The moving body of water has potential which is passed through an electricity-generating turbine. ... Nuclear reactors do produce some pollution, but not much. ... Wind energy uses the wind for purposes like generating electricity, charging batteries, and pumping water. ...

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The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that comes from water vapor, which in turn, warms the earth. (Watson 25) The gases consist of carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and ozone. ... Researches say that El Nino and La Nina are necessary to understand as well as their water forms and interactions with earth's radiation, oceans, water vapor, ice, and snow so that they could get a better idea of its relationship with global warming. ... It would also result in unknown side effects, acidic water, less oxygen in the seawater, and deadly organisms with threatening e...

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Even in today's administration the government has seem to have taken the side of Mother Nature "That's why I directed my administration to work with states, utilities, and others to set new standards on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants are allowed to dump into the air. ... Other forms of credit production can be produced by no carbon producing energy sites such as wind turbines as depicted by this quote"[T}he development of a wind turbine by Yorkshire Water at Saltend treatment works in Hull, England to reduce its carbon emissions by 1,150 tonnes per year&qu...

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China is the biggest producer, consumer and importer of coal and carbon dioxide emissions in the world now. The usage of energy has been increasing because of domestic demand, and exports have also been increasing, such as large shipping. Those problems also have been causing environmental problems ...

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As the earth gets warmer, there will be a rise in the average water level of the oceans. ... As water is heated, it expands, or increases in volume. ... All together, glaciers contain about seventy-five percent of the available fresh water of the earth. ... It will also reduce the air pollution and improve the quality of the air we breathe. ...

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As the earth gets warmer, there will be a rise in the average water level of the oceans. ... As water is heated, it expands, or increases in volume. ... All together, glaciers contain about seventy-five percent of the available fresh water of the earth. ... It will also reduce the air pollution and improve the quality of the air we breathe. ...

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The atmospheric gases that produce the greenhouse effect include the naturally occurring substances water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3), as well as artificially produced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). ... They regard environmentalists as having the underlying goal of restricting private property rights and the activities of business, and putting restraints on the free market (as in requiring companies to meet pollution standards, or preventing new construction in an area with an endangered species). ...

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