Blog 18: Answer 2

Presentation

1. What is Your EQ?

What is the best possible way to preserve and protect our water and ecosystems?

2. What is your first answer?

My first answer is that education ids the best possible way to preserve and protect our water and ecosystems because people need to be taught about the problems at hand before we will be able to make change.

3. What is your second answer?

My second answer is that keeping our water clean is the next best possible way to conserve and protect our water an ecosystems because it plays a major part in conservation and trash greatly affects our environments.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real world application for each

Answer 1: Education

• People need to be informed about this problem
• The problem will never be fixed if people don't know about it
• Telling younger generations about it could help them want to conserve when their older

Answer 2: Keeping the water clean

• There are multiple garbage patches in the ocean that are causing great damage
• Unclean water is starting to affect us (Rio, Flint Michigan, Texas)
• Trash is killing over 100,000 sea mammals a year

5. What Printed source best supports your answer?

http://education.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

6. What other source supports your answer?

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cabd453515244bf2b1063e15f6b680c9/ap-test-rio-olympic-water-badly-polluted-even-far-offshore

7. Tie this all together with a concluding thought.

A really large part of water conservation is keeping our water clean, so I really want to emphasize this by making it an answer. Garbage affects marine life every day, and it is quickly starting to affect humans too. The garbage found in the water creates bacteria that is extremely harmful for any life in the water. I cases like the beaches in Rio, the water is so polluted that a lot of people that go into the water catch deadly viruses, such as flesh eating bacteria. In fact, if a person where to ingest just three teaspoons of the Rio water, they would have a 99% chance of getting infected. People need to know how badly our pollution is affecting the ocean an ourselves, and by making it an answer I can inform them as to why keeping our water clean is such an important answer to my question.