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Introduction

At 3398 miles, the Yellow River is the sixth-longest river in the world. Issuing from the mountains of the Tibetan plateau at Qinghai, it merges into the Bohai Sea on the East coast of China. The Yellow River, also known as Huang He in Chinese, is named the Yellow River because an enormous amount of loess sediments has changed the color of the river into yellow. The Yellow River is also called the "Mother River of China" because its basin is the birthplace of the northern Chinese civilizations (Chinascope, 2005). However, it is also known as "China's Sorrow" because Continue reading...

“Man can only feel the forest when the forest cannot feel man.” These words of GonzoBilly reveal a modern ecological situation that is current for the Amazon basin. In this essay, I would like to analyze the existing problem of deforestation in Columbia and the regions of the Amazon basin. In order to fulfill an overall picture of the current situation, we shall look into the geography of the basin and its importance for our planet and ecology. Moreover, this essay covers the current problem on deforestation and its consequences on Columbians. The Amazon River is the most water-bearing Continue reading...

Between July 1982 to 2001 a serial killer ran rampant within the Green River area, where 48 women eventually went missing. While several of the bodies have been found and laid to rest, there are still several others that have not been found or identified. Serial murderer Gary Ridgway pled guilty in 2003 to the known murders, but has professed that there are even more that have remained unsolved. To date Ridgway is incarcerated at Washington State Penitentiary where he is being held on life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Gary Leon Ridgway was born in Salt Lake Continue reading...

Introduction

The Horseshoe Bend in Arizona on the Colorado River comes under the area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area or simply the Glen Canyon National Park . The Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, when combined with the Rainbow Bridge National Monument resources, fulfills the merit of a national park. The significance of a natural park in terms of local, regional, and international aspects is determined by the natural resources including the geology of the area. A set of statement of significance form the basis for the purpose of the national park. These statements of significance cover the geological as well Continue reading...

Without water there would be no life. Without life, there would be no humans or human civilization. There would be no cities. In fact, Las Vegas grew out of the desert because of water. Man’s conquest of and control of water allowed the city of Las Vegas to not only exist, but to thrive. It is a large city in the middle of the desert. This begs the question of how Las Vegas, or the rest of Southern Nevada gets its water. This paper explores water in southern Nevada, the sources, how the water is treated, the state Continue reading...

Introduction

The consensus from scientists and resource experts seemed to be that, as early as 2008, the United States of America, not just Southern California, will be facing an era of water scarcity (Schneider, 2008). More than 10 years ago, the General Accounting Office, an investigative link of the U.S. Congress, surveyed water managers in 36 states. And the consensus was an anticipated water shortage statewide, or at least locally or regionally, within the next 10 years. Nearly all Californians believe that water shortage is a serious problem in the state (Reuters, 2015).
However, Southern California plays a crucial role Continue reading...

Summary and Introduction

The Revelstoke Dam or what is more popularly known among the Canadian locals as the Revelstoke Canyon Dam is a man-made water reservoir that sits atop the Revelstoke Canyon. The main reason behind the development of the Dam is for hydroelectric purposes. When it comes to the dimensions of the reservoir, it spans the entire length of the Columbia River which is roughly around five kilometers. It is located in Revelstoke, British Columbia in Canada. Currently, it has five powerhouses or generating units with each unit generating roughly 500 Megawatts of electrical power.
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Introduction

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has great importance in the current business environment as governments and general public expect that businesses today should contribute to community welfare and environmental sustainability. No business enterprise can be competitive in the market environment or achieve enhanced customer loyalty unless they are socially responsible corporate citizens. The ethical case study chosen for this assignment is about the corporate ethics or responsibility of X Chemical whose operations harm the environment to an unacceptable level. As Heist (1992) describes in the case study, the government agency responsible for overseeing the permit process granted Continue reading...

Out of all investigations in the United States, the expedition of Lewis and Clark was the first government research expedition. The heads of the study were given a clear task, and all participants were provided with the necessary equipment.
Initially, the goal of the expedition was to most accurately determine what the United States had acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase, but later the expedition became the basis for the expansion of the United States to the Wild West.
President Thomas Jefferson was very interested in sending an expedition of Lewis and Clark, because he wanted to Continue reading...

Background information

The globalization process of the world started a long time ago, and the real history of this process cannot be traced. In some academic articles, the beginning of globalization is marked by the introduction of voyage that made easy for the European nation to get access to the developing countries like Africa and other Middle East Nation. The actual definition of the term globalization thus remains an area of academic debate among many scholars. For the purpose of this research work, globalization would refers to the process of international integration that arise from the interchange of world news, products, Continue reading...

Issues of development are the major challenge to the Connecticut River watershed. It is a suitable site for river rafting with annual events on river racing. However, because of the development, there may be challenges on opposition to developers who may influence issues of conservation on the land. According to the Briefcase document (2015), issues of riparian areas and land protection hold substantial significance in the area.
According to Pancak (2003), transfer of real property in Connecticut attracts a conveyance tax. This tax is normally a two-part tax with one part benefiting the municipality at a rate of 0.11%. Continue reading...

Aswan Dam is located on the river Nile in Egypt. It was built and completed in the year 1970. The construction cost of the dam was one billion dollars, in total. Its reservoir capacity is 5.97 trillion cubic feet. The primary purpose of this dam is to control floods, create hydroelectric power and be a source of irrigation (Guertin). It is built upon Lake Nasser and is made up mostly of rock and clay. Planned by a team of British engineers and built by a team of Soviet Engineers, Aswan Dam is one of its kind. Aswan Dam is Continue reading...

Mark Twain’s classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a beautifully told look at Midwestern life through the rambunctious misadventures of the titular character – a young troublemaker who navigates a decidedly pleasant, quintessentially American landscape full of hope, tradition and challenges of its own. Though Huck Finn himself and the characters with which he is surrounded are central to the story, of equal importance is the decidedly Midwestern setting, and the ways in which the community Huck lives in is structured and depicted. America in Huckleberry Finn is a place of small-town quaintness, the newness of America Continue reading...

The existing standards for drinking water in the United States don’t consider contaminants such as metals and chemicals, which have appeared recently. “Today thousands of poisonous organic and inorganic substances enter the house of every American through the water" - sums Philip Hart, a senator from Michigan. That’s why in the US bottle of spring water sold in every grocery store, and everybody have been accustomed for vending machines selling it.
Heavy contamination of water sources in some cases leads to tragic consequences. For instance, in Alamogordo and the surrounding area (New Mexico) were observed cases of Continue reading...

Introduction The People’s Republic of Ghana is a united presidential constitutional democratic and a self-governing multinational country whose location is along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Guinea, in the West African Sub-region. The land mass of the Republic of Ghana is 238,535 km2 while the international land borders at a length of 2093 kilometers. The countries neighboring Ghana include Burkina Faso from the North, Ivory Coast from the west, the Gulf of Guinea from the south, and Togo from the east. The word Ghana in Mande (Soninke language), means a warrior king. By the year Continue reading...

Ancient Egypt can be depicted as a civilization of antique Northeastern Africa, located alongside the lower stretches of Nile River and is at the present the modern republic of Egypt. It is among the six cultures worldwide to ascend independently. Egypt is commonly referred as the Nile gift by Herodotus a Greek historian from the 5th century. This enormous river, is considered to be the longest in the world and stretches towards the north from the equatorial Africa to Mediterranean Sea via Egypt.
As from 8000 BCE, the residents of the Nile valley had by then become rather sedentary, Continue reading...

Introduction

Africa is popular for its frequent civil wars, which result in loss of several lives, as well as the destruction of property. The civil wars have also been great barriers to the economic growth and development of a number of countries in the African continent. Among the countries that have suffered a great deal from the impacts of civil war is Sudan. It was among the first African countries to gain independence in 1956, after Egypt, which although gained independence in 1922, is considered an Arab state. After gaining independence, the situation in Sudan worsened. There were continuous conflicts Continue reading...

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Love Canal is situated in the city of Niagara Falls and is named after William T. Love, the original developer of the site. Although the Canal began as a utopian vision, it has ended as one of the most disastrous environmental disasters. Love’s vision was to develop a canal for harnessing energy with a hydroelectric power plant and had hoped that the project would encourage development in the area. However, the vision was never fulfilled.
When the land was sold to Hooker Chemicals and Plastics, the company began using the excavated area as a landfill for chemical wastes. Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper provides a look the history of the American Indians, their traditional customs and lifestyle. Also their settlement patterns pre and post contact, how they started agriculture to grow plants to support their food and medicines, the structure of their societies and their land holding methods will be examined. Additionally we will also explore their socio-economic issues, their dependencies and post colonial life. Their early migratory routes and subsequent settlements over large geographies will also be detailed. Ten different settlement areas with their own host of problems and quality of life will be examined in detail. Along with Continue reading...

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Wastewater treatment defined

Wastewater treatment is a process that involves the removal of contaminants present in industrial, surface runoff, commercial, sewer inflow/infiltration, agricultural, and/or domestic effluents before reuse or discharge into the environment (CAEPA, 2015; Templeton and Butler, 2011).

Constituents of wastewater

Water forms a large percentage of the constituents of wastewater. Other likely constituents of wastewater include toxins such as agricultural and domestic pesticides, herbicides, poisonous substances and so forth; water; insoluble organic matter such as leaves, papers, food remains, feces, and so forth; soluble organic matter such as sugar, drugs, urea, proteins, and so forth; pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and other Continue reading...