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Water crisis

Science Project Report

August 2016

Water Crisis:
A water crisis is a situation which the amount of potable water that a countries needs is higher then the amount of potable water meaning the water that certain area can use. Potable water is the water that can be used for drinking. Water crisis are version of a natural phenomenon.
Some of the countries that are most affected by water crisis are…
Libya
Western Sahara
Yemen
Djibouti
Jordan
All of these countries are suffering from water shortages and need water that is impossible to get.
A water shortage is not only about a shortage of water. Water crisis have a huge influence on the economy and other natural resources that a country needs. Water is the most needed resource because no human can live without water for more than 3 days.
(http://www.seametrics.com/blog/5-countries-most-threatened-by-water-shortages/)

In This Article:
Rio Water Crisis
Flint Water Supply
Duke Coal Ash Spill

Rio De Janeiro:
The swimmers only need to ingest only three teaspoons of water to get the virus that the water holds.
The rowing and sailing teams are worried about hitting trash and slowing the race down which would make it unfair.
Due to the bacteria and pollutants in the water, many of the athletes are scared and have even backed out of the games this year.

The water on the coasts are filling with bad bio-indicators, raw sewage, and even floating garbage!
They used an eco-barrier to stop trash/garbage/pollution from getting into the main drinking water.
The government has promised one billion dollars to fix this mess by 80% long before the games had started, but that promise will go unfulfilled.

“You never know the worth of water until the well is dry.”
Unknown

Flint, Michigan
The water in Flint, Michigan is filled with lead.
Lead is a very bad substance to consume due to mental and physical development issues it can cause.
The city of 100,000 people now has no clean water, even in stores.
Lead poisoning is irreversible, meaning that there is no way to stop it except for taking out all of the water.
90% of the problems that they had could have been solved with a anti-corrosive agent.

Background Info
Flint Water supply switched to the Flint River.
The river turned out to have lead which then went into tap water.
The water is 19 times more corrosive then the normal tap water.
In 2011 the city of Flint was in a financial crisis, so to cut cost they changed where the city got its water from.

Students from Virginia Tech University did an in home research on the water supply and said,
“You are paying for poison.”

Duke Coal Ash Spill

This phenomenon Started February 2, 2014.
Duke did not announce that the incident had appended until the following day.
27 million gallons were contaminated and 50 thousand to 82 thousand tons of ashes were spilled.
The state Environmental Regulators have fined Duke Energy over 6.6 million for the coal ash spill.

Another $207,000 fine was payed by Duke Energy to the Environmental World.
The spill occurred when a corrosive metal storm pipe broke and ash flowed through into the pipes.

Over one million people got sick from the coal ash spill by Duke Energy.

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." -- W.H. Auden

Everyone needs water to live and everyone would like to have money in their pocket. All of these problems could have been solved if people were focused on the environment and not how much money we would save in doing that. The water supply in Rio could have been solved if the government had cared about what was going into the water. The water in Flint, Michigan could have been fixed if an anti-corrosive agent was used. The Duke Coal Ash spill could have been fixed if they were more careful about the conditions of the pipes that they used. Now that all of these problems occurred, it’s now costing more than just money to fix these problems. It’s costing lives.