sustaining+water

People and Water People are part of the water cycle. We dink fresh water, from rivers, lakes and underground. We use water for cleaning, cooking, drinking, washing, farming. Water that we drink has to be safe and clean so we can drink it.

Altering The Water Cycle ====Every city depends on water. If it is clean dirty or has harmful chemicals in it. Or a water line busted and dangerous things got in it to harm your body. If you study a map of Canada you will see that mostly every city are built near rivers or lakes because, every ==== [] ====city depends on water. Engineers have made different ways of carrying water from its source it where it’s needed. This may include diverting rivers, laying underground pipes, and building water storage tanks. All waste water, sewage run-off have to be separated and drained safely away from the city. ====

Energy From The Sea

Oceans contain a lot of energy in the form of heat, currents, tides, and waves. It is very costly to manage these kinds of energy with the technology these days. Places have an electric plant powered by ocean waves. Using ocean energy is going to be difficult for the future engineers. []

Forms of energy such as fossil fuels are found in the ocean floor. If offshore oil field is close to land, oil may be pumped onshore through pipelines laid along the sea floor. If drilling is father from land, the oil is stored in huge tanks on the sea floor. The oil is then pumped into oil tankers that carry it to a nearby port. To get the fuel, from the ocean drills are lowered from big floating platforms. The platforms are token out to sea and anchored down to the sea floor. About 20% of the world’s oil is by undersea drilling. If offshore oil field is close to land, the oil may be pumped onshore through pipelines laid across the sea floor. Is drilling is along way from land, the oil is stored in big tanks on the sea floor. Then once it is stored there are smaller tanks that pump it into tankers that carry it to a close port. What are the dangers of getting oil and gas from the ocean floor? There stories about oil tankers that leak their oil. Workers that work on offshore drilling platforms risk their lives in sea storms with strong winds and high waves. Also in earthquakes.

Pollution Of The Seas Coastlines have the most marine life. These areas are also at greatest risk from pollution. Coastlines get pollutants from land that is washed into the sea. The pollutants are carried in rivers and in run-off from cities and farms. The coastlines also get pollutants discarded by ships at sea or from drilling platforms or broken pipelines. They are a lot of dangers to animals in the sea. like fishing lines, nets, plastic bags, needles and plenty of others things that were just throwing in the sea. Animals in the sea were killed by these dangerous objects.

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Sustaning Water Resorces

==== Most fresh water is underground or frozen. Like springs, many countries have to get their water from outside their borders. This is due to dirty water or water that has harmful chemicals in it. Rivers, lakes and wetlands carry out important functions as well as keeping the water going. Like keeping it clean. In many countries they are taking the lakes are rivers to better health. The first step is to stop pollution. People throw plenty of garbage and junk into rivers and lakes and also seas every day. The health of our water systems depends on everyone. It is important to keep lakes, rivers and oceans clean for today and for the future. ====

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Ways that we can help water and people? We could save water by turning taps off when we are finished using the water. Be careful what you throw down your toilets or sinks. Don’t throw garbage in lakes or rivers or even oceans.

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