Describe how many of your everyday activities, including your demands for food and other materials, add pollution to the water cycle or alter it in other ways. How can you be a better steward with your water consumption?

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Water Resources Project (40 points)
Please provide detailed answers to the following questions. The questions are comprehensive in nature, be sure to provide answers to everything.
In your own words, describe the hydrologic cycle. Trace the movement of water through the atmosphere and earths systems. Include travels living organisms as well (HINT: Plants pick up and lose water too).
Describe how many of your everyday activities, including your demands for food and other materials, add pollution to the water cycle or alter it in other ways. How can you be a better steward with your water consumption?
You are a commercial developer and you were asked to develop a golf course on what is presently a forested land next to a reservoir used for city water. Describe the impacts this development might have on water quality in the reservoir. (HINT: think of pollution from clearing the land as well as growing grass for the golf course)
Imagine you are the governor of an arid (does not have enough water to support growth of plants) southwestern state in the US where water is scare and already being overdrawn. What policies will you advocate for your residents and those looking to move into your state. (Hint: Which policies can be enacted for individual families to conserve water?)

What are wetlands? Describe how they preserve water quality.

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