The Mekong River, also known as the "Mother of Water," is the longest river in Southeast Asia, with a length of 2700 miles, that flows through several countries.1 The river's mostly collects water from rainfall, and is the largest fresh water fishery in the world.2 Not only is The Mekong River a resource, but a way of life and tradition for people that live around and use the river. ... Since majority of the water being used from the Mekong River is for farming, the amount of water being wasted can be reduced. ... If this method is effective, water consumption difference will d...

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For a sustained production of food, it is imperative to have ample fertile land, fresh water, energy and biodiversity etc.. ... The shortage of productive cropland combined with decreasing land productivity is, on the other hand, responsible for the use of more chemical fertilizers and ultimately to the pollution of our fresh groundwater reserves. Fresh water for everyone is utopia one may say. As water demands grow with a growing population, our available "drinkable" water is shrinking in quantity and quality. ... Furthermore, developing countries face the problem of water related diseases ...

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These forests provide habitat for an estimated half of the world's plant and animal species, provide water and fuel for much of the world's population, and influence regional and global climate. ... Water supplies are threatened virtually worldwide with depletion and pollution. ... The solution must come from better land use and the protection of critical watershed vegetation, along with water conservation and recycling. ... The maintenance of essential ecological processes (which rain from the global cycles of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water to the localized regeneration of s...

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The "fresh green breast" of the American continent had held the promise of a "retreat to an oasis of harmony" (p.3) as expressed in Virgil's Eclogues. Americans had believed that they had the chance to make a fresh start, leave "corrupt Europe" behind, and make the "poetic fantasy" (p.3) come true. ... He therefore emphasizes the characteristics of the polarity between "machine" and "garden", already plain in the programmatic "rock-foundation", the epigraph (Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"): the peaceful spot, retired and fixed (stasis), is contrasted to the "torrent of migration an...

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The "fresh green breast" of the American continent had held the promise of a "retreat to an oasis of harmony" (p.3) as expressed in Virgil's Eclogues. Americans had believed that they had the chance to make a fresh start, leave "corrupt Europe" behind, and make the "poetic fantasy" (p.3) come true. ... He therefore emphasizes the characteristics of the polarity between "machine" and "garden", already plain in the programmatic "rock-foundation", the epigraph (Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"): the peaceful spot, retired and fixed (stasis), is contrasted to the "torrent of migration an...

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It is the cause of which too much salt is dissolved into natural fresh water. ... As a result salt stored in the ground rises to the surface with the water and when the water is evaporated the salt is left behind. ... Urban salinity is mainly the result of over water of gardens by some people, and yet again allowing water tables to rise. ... Now when it rains, the water is not absorbed by the trees and water tables rise allowing salt to come to the surface. ... These outcomes include water pumps that stretch kilometres to the ocean in order to pump excess water back into the ocean. ...

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Next, their throats are slit by a mechanical blade, or they drown in boiling vats of water used to loosen their feathers. ... As the ice melts the water is not protected from temperature changes. The sun no longer has a large reflective surface to divert its rays from the water. ... Some scientists accredit the stronger storms we are experiencing today to the change in water temperatures. ... Weather experts conceive when the ice caps melt into fresh water, and the sun changes the temperature this affects the wind patterns or jet streams. ...

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Most of this land is located in the southern part of the country. 51,500 sq km of land is irrigated, which aids with farming in areas where water is scarce. ... In the north, fresh water resources are scare and polluted and they are inaccessible and poor in the center and extreme southeast. ...

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"The Indian government is aware of its need to take advantage of "GMO" crops given the need to conserve land and water resources, but there is significant political opposition to allowing foreign multinationals to control Indian agriculture. ...

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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE REPORT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RAINFOREST DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON ASSIGNMENT NO. 2 By LISA FITTLER Date ABSTRACT The reason for this report is to address the ever-increasing problem of rainforest deforestation in the Amazon. "If the Amazonia w...

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