Diagnostic Essay Prompt

This article touches base on one of numerous ongoing issues in California right now, drought. The author travels to a few of the various counties that are feeling this drought the greatest. Meanwhile, he also interviews a few farmers on the issues, to get their opinion on the drought. “Generally, farms established before 1914 get their water allotment before farms with lower-priority rights.” (Richtel, page 6).

In this article of “The New Water Czars” by Daniel Kraker explains about the historic water of the Indian community be brought back to its roots or just be turned into a big power broker. He begins to explain how the operations of the Gila River Indian Community are a big agriculture in the south of Arizona. There is a settlement that has been nearly 80 years in the making trying to help the community fewer than 20,000 with more than 650,000 acre-feet of water enough to serve the residential needs of almost 3 million people. In that case it will put the Pima and Maricopa people in a place of marvelous power.

Article of the Week Response “The Wrong Way to Think about California Water” is an argumentative piece of writing that was written by Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. This article stresses mostly about the mere fact of how people waste water; especially in California. The major drought is causing people to use more water than we actually need to use normally. We don’t need to use as much water as we do

The Southwest Water Crisis Although the current drought is exceptional for its high temperatures and affecting the largest supply of water in Southwestern United States, the Colorado River Basin, by decreasing the water levels. With the lack of water source it is also negatively impacting human health, agriculture, energy, and ecosystems. Water resources are crucial for any sort of living organism, but very scarce due the current drought, which holds complications for the future and alterations people have to construct to maintain water sustainability. Due to the climate change and warmer weather during the summers caused low snowpack in Rocky Mountains.

Ever since the market economy was introduced, our land and water are no longer managed by the local communities, rather they are regulated by the government. Some may believe that this transition is the ultimate problem to the decline and mistreatment of our water resources and land. Whether it is the main problem or not, one thing is for sure, our current ways of distributing our water and water rights are not as equitable as they should be. Often times the way the government distributes water it not the most efficient way possible. This issue greatly affects the people residing in the Southwest, including tribes from Arizona like the Hopi and the Navajo.

The use of the vignette creates a sense of dirtiness and corruption that alludes to the main purpose of the chapter—water pollution. Glennon claims that “water pollution is an acute national problem that threatens our existing water supply” (76). Existing problems that the author discusses in his chapter include: the collection of sewage and storm water in a single collection system, nitrogen fertilizer, and animal feeding operations. Robert Glennon effectively validates his

As demonstrated in some of the finest environmental literature of the 20th century, such as Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, nature is powerful and continues on despite human corruption and destruction, and no matter how hard humans try to dominate nature, they rarely escape their own

water is necessary to survive for plants, animals and humans. and we are destroying our community primary sources of water by using too much of it. it 's predicted that water withdrawal will drains rivers and destroy habitat for many species of fish and wildlife. Cities like Las Vegas water is pumping from the colorado river,

the drought that has driven farmers and other big water users to drill deeper wells. ” If we would regulate the groundwater farmers and other people who use a lot of water would have enough for everything. Not many people out there know how to use their water but if they would regulate the groundwater we wouldn’t be in this situation. Yes I know that many people don’t want the state to regulate but I think that that decision should be up to the state not to the people.

Though, it is difficult due to the fact that companies are the ones who own the water and the government is corrupt when it comes to this. It also showed that how without water, there would be nothing. No trees, food, and obviously no water. Taking water out of the aquifers and depleting them can also cause sinkholes. Politically, the government does not care.

This is the case because of the way in which Rawls understands justice and fairness. As emphasized by Rawls, there is a need of ensuring that every government effort or policy benefits those in society who are least fortunate (Rawls 13). This implies that any geoengineering strategy must include all potential risks and rewards in a way that ensures an equitable and acceptable distribution of risks and benefits throughout society, with a focus on the least advantaged. Given this concept, it might be argued that this task would be inherently challenging in the case of geoengineering. For example, geoengineering techniques such as ocean fertilization, for instance, might exacerbate already-existing imbalances and harm weaker populations, such as those that live in coastal areas and depend on seafood for nourishment or a means of subsistence.

The prenatal diagnostics and prenatal screening being routine procedures should be considered as advantage of modern medicine. It helps to reveal wide spectrum of fetus abnormal conditions, but not only congenital defects and malformations. Early detection of many of them could help to perform surgical correction and necessary management as soon as possible in order to save newborns’ lives. On the other hand, this method is widely discussed and it has many opponents, and in some countries prenatal diagnostic procedures is not considered now as a screening method. Main ethical issues are terminations of pregnancies in case of malformations, which may be supposed as eugenical abortion, inform consent and problem of decision-making process.

Topic: Water Shortage Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about water shortage and how to cope with water scarcity Thesis Statement: Across the globe, reports reveal huge areas in crisis as reservoirs and aquifers dry up. I. INTRODUCTION A. Turning off the water while brushing their teeth, a family could save about 5 to 10 gallons of water per day. B. Freshwater shortage will cause the next great global crisis.

Ever since Garrett Hardin’s publishing of the Tragedy of Commons in 1968, it has been used extensively to understand environmental problems. The tragedy of the commons can be defined as when individuals acting in rational self interest seek to maximize the benefit of Earth’s resources as fast as they can and in doing so, lack an incentive to conserve and regulate these resources (Olive, 2016). This concept can be seen in the 2014 film Damnation by Travis Rummel and Ben Knight. Below, it is shown how the dams in the movie exemplify key characteristics of a commons, why problems of the dams are hard to overcome and how these problems can be solved. By examining the dams shown in the film, it is evident that the problem of the dams is an accurate example of the tragedy of the commons.

The increasingly hot weather has gone up by one to two degrees in the past fifty years (Tigay, 2011). While the small number may not be alarming to most people, the one degree increase in temperature has had negative effects on the Earth and especially on low water supplies. In California, the recent droughts have not left enough water to go around to help with fires or for agricultural purposes. The state produces large amounts of agriculture, such as almonds and avocados, which in turn requires large amounts of water. Higher temperatures and pollution have also been affecting the water levels of wildlife negatively (Weeks,