Fresh Water Supply
Using fresh water to dispose of excrement, is this a wise use of this valuable resource?
A fresh water supply is essential for the continuation of life on Earth.
All the water that we can ever expect to have on earth, is here we have it already, it has continually been recycled since its inception,
through the dinosaurs age, Egyptian royalty and Crusaders alike supplying life on Earth for many centuries, and then we get to the
20th and 21st century, where pollution has increased on a grander scale.
It is shocking that we do not take more care of it with so much of it intentionally contaminated, many countries in the world rely on
annual rainfall for their fresh water supply, with many lands turning to desert, little or no rivers for irrigation, unable to grow crops
resulting in starvation.
2 to 4 gallons of water contaminated per gallon of oil
Industrial activity has resulted in much water becoming polluted from China to India and Turkey, but perhaps the most shocking
and detrimental is the oil Sands project in Alberta Canada, it uses roughly 175m L of water a day, then the contaminated water
leftover fills the many toxic waste ponds that absolutely denying life.
Is this a good way to use up our fresh water supply? It is not possible to buy more fresh water once it’s gone that it, considering the
environmental destruction, high carbon emissions can agree for oil wealth be justified? There are many alternatives being discovered,
water has even been used as an alternative fuel then there is ethanol made from corn that is not such a good alternative considering the amount of land, water and machinery needed to produce it. Solar power has been used in the propulsion of vehicles and a personal favorite it seems to make the most sense algae grown in the vertical bags at Vertigro that can be processed to produce special types of fuel that can power airplanes and large trucks.
the sustainability of Alberta’s water is in question with a growing social infrastructure increasing agricultural demands and the industrial impact are a concern on Alberta’s water sustainability.
According to a report done in 1991 on Alberta’s water sustainability it stated that industrial uses of fresh water out run in demand by 50% of the supply.
The quality of fresh water has been affected by industry many miles from point of source. Coal burning industry has contributed significantly to the concentrations of PAH in lake sediment. Due to to high heat mercury can become airborne carried on the wind it dissolves in water’s all over the world these and other substances are lodged in the sediment, which get carried in to the plants that grow there and in turn to the larger fish.
China’s two major rivers the yellow and Yantze, are the fresh water supply (fed by shrinking glaciers in the Tibetan mountains) for China, China faces irrigation problems in its flatlands as well’s are running dry. India is also facing fresh water supply shortages, wells are being drilled deeper as precipitation cannot keep up with the surface water demand. As demand for fresh water increases for domestic use so does the amount left for irrigation of crops decrease.
Canada is putting and increase on demand for fresh water supply only 7% of the worlds renewable water is available for Canada, 84% of the population lives in the southern belt, whilst 60% of the available water is in the North.
The Athabasca River starts in the Colombian ice fields fed by melting glaciers and snow, it cuts diagonally across Alberta and then runs parallel on the East side of the Rockies on its way through the province it it is used by several industries pulp mills coal and limestone quarries oil and gas developments also assisting hard and soft lumber removal, it ends its journey of over 1200 km in the lake Athabasca.
The oil Sands Project it uses around 175,000,000 L of water a day this water is contaminated with many chemicals and is not reusable it is then stored in huge toxic waste ponds, the bitumen that is being extracted lies under the boreal forest in the eyes of the industrialist this ecosystem is viewed as something in the way and many kilometers have already been destroyed.
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