Full Title: Threats to Our Clean Water: Impacts to Human and Marine Environments
Topic: Marine Science/ Water with impacts to humans and the marine environment.
Author: "The above story is based on materials provided by Taylor & Francis, via AlphaGalileo."
Date of Article: November 11, 2013
Topic: Marine Science/ Water with impacts to humans and the marine environment.
Author: "The above story is based on materials provided by Taylor & Francis, via AlphaGalileo."
Date of Article: November 11, 2013
Recently there were two articles that were published in "Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development." The two articles both were focused on water contamination but one focused on impacts towards human while the other article focused on impact towards the marine environment. "Access to Safe Water" is a paradox in nations that reveals how important it is to provide safe drinking water. The article focuses on how important it is to have safe drinking water isn't a "commodity but it is necessary." To pursue this, educating the public with positive water management practice. "Oil Pollution in the Marine Environment: Inputs, Big Spills, Small Spills, and Dribbles" is the article about water contamination impacting the marine environment. It is important to not contaminate water with other chemicals like nitrogen, sulfur, or hydro-carbons because these chemicals have different component properties. The article tries to tell you to how important we must keep our water clean because it isn't just impacting us but the marine environment as well.
I chose this article because the title was standing out the most out of all the others. The title also looked like it had a very urgent and important message to spread about how unclean water can affect not just us humans but also the marine environment. I found how the article discussed about how the unclean contaminated water doesn't just impact us but also it also impacts the marine environment interesting. This connects to how we must do our best in maintaining our clean water and prevent more pollution. Another connection is that currently oil spills are the major impacts to our precious water that we use and also the marine environment.
The next steps is that "Access to Safe Water" could be developing in many nations around the world to improve the safety of us humans and the marine life. Keeping our water safe and clean is necessary. Next they may be able to create a machine that can filter out the oil spills in the ocean to keep the water clean. Another thing that can happen is that they design better ships that can transport the oil with a emergency back up plan to prevent the oil to spill into the ocean. This article is important for it is trying to send the message of how important it is to keep our treasured water clean which is necessary not a choice with a great explanation of how unclean water isn't just affecting us but also the marine life.