WATER THE LIQUID OF LIFE, HOW CAN WE SAVE ITWater, H2O (-* H+ +OH- hydrogen ion and hydroxide ion. These ions participate in many important biochemical reactions. Ann Christensen,Arizona Biology Network). The most basic and most needed building block of life.
It is also one of the most important, because there is no way we can live without it. If tomorrow all the fossil fuel in the world ran out, we could go any number of ways, but if the water all the water ran out tomorrow. We would be in a whole lot of trouble. With out water there would simply be now life on this planet. From the time the water of this planet started to cool the compounds we have today were forming.
At about 3. 55-4. 55 billion years ago (scientist still can not agree stating the volatile condition of are young planet at the time due to volcanoes, earthquakes, comets, and asteroids. But when ever the first life form appeared which was cyanobacteria. The orinism was cyanobacteria a unicelluerl life form, from it came many other life forms, I do not know enough about the theory of the origins of life to go into further detail.
Lets look at the way water gets to us. Lets look at its history, its evolution, and its present form today. As early as the ancient Romans waste control has been around though in rudimentary ways. Later during the Middle Ages cesspools and privy vaults were developed, when they were full the first sanitary workers came and emptied them at the owner’s expanse. Then onto the 19th and 20th centuries, were vast advances have been made from running water to indoor plumbing, we no longer through trash and refuge into the streets, (during the last few centuries that was one of the major causes of epidemics and deises).
We can get water from several sources not all will be clean and safe to drink but they are there. While the United States of America has an abundeced of fresh water (clean drinkable water) that is not true for the rest of the world. Many places rely on aquifers that stores groundwater say a desert where there is rarely any water. And in places with presicis little space for farming underground water stores are a godsend to the farmers. An aquifer can be a confined space or an unconfined space.
A confined aquifer is between two layers of rock, and is at a high pressure making it a perfect choice for a well. Water, what do we do with it, to it, and for it? Water has an innumerable amount of uses in all facets of life, from bathing, to drinking, playing in, cooking with, or any other manner it can be used in. But in using water we also make it dirty. Clean water, seeing how 97% of the water that covers the earth is contaminated in some way, “clean” is a relative term.
Is it little wonder that sense the beginning of time people have flocked around, and built grand cities around major water ways, new Orleans is a great example. And when people gather, so are there those that wish to control them through force, poisoning a main well as treacherous as it sounds was a tactic used regularly in the before, during and after the dark ages. What my experiment was meant to show. By doing this experiment I was hoping to gain more information on the plight are world suffers, the plight that a country such as the U. S. has an abundance of water, but much of it is not drinkable.
To put in perspective the usage of water in the United States of America, as of 1995, American citizens were using:Thermoelectric less then 1% percentAnd all that came from 402,00 million gallons per day (as of the 1995 U. S. DOI report, Bruce Babbitt secretary). But what is all that water used for? Over the last decades we have developed more and more machines that require large amounts of water to cool them and keep them from over heating, that is just one of the industrial sectors applications of water, there are many, many other means of using water, like one that I learned of in the course of my studies was that water is used in mining for such things as separating minerals to dust collection. After usage this water passes through a purification plant which is were I had my tests conducted because I wanted them to be as accurate as possible. The readings were as follows:As you can see from the diagram Bottled water is the best choice to drink.
This is what I thought would happen. seeing how bottled water sets for a long while before selling it is able to settle which helps the water. I hope this expariment ahs been as instiful to you as it has been to me, I have learned many things about the water process I did not know when I first started, till now I did not know that lime was added as a chemical into the water we drink every day. Things like that is what gives me my love for science, little facts like that.Bibliography:
