What have scientists now labeled as the number one menace to our waterways?

Fortenberry
SM 101
Assignment #5
Poisoned Waters and The Future of Water
Answer the following questions using the videos assigned in Module 7.
Type your responses under each question.
Submit in Canvas by 11:59 pm, October 24th.
From the Poisoned Waters video:
1. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, what are dead zones and how are they caused?
2. On the Eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, what is the source of a majority of the water pollution?
3. In 2008 Delmarva Peninsula Poultry Farms, located on the Eastern shore of Virginia, raised more than 570,000,000 chickens. These chickens produce 1.5 billion pounds of manure per year. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, explain how chicken manure from CAFOs,like Delmarva, can lead to dead zones in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay.
4. Further north of the Chesapeake Bay, near the head waters of the Potomac River, many male fish were found to have female reproductive traits, such as egg production. What was thought to be the cause?
5. What have scientists now labeled as the number one menace to our waterways? How does this thing cause pollution in waterways?
From The Future of Water video:
6. According to a United Nations estimate, how many people, globally, could be facing water shortages by 2050?
7. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, what is “water reclamation”?
8. What percentage, or amount, of Namibia’s drinking water is recycled waste water?
9. Water reclamation is one way to solve a water shortage. Another solution is conservation. What are some water conservation methods that you use (or plan to use) in your day-to-day life?
10. What do you think of water reclamation? Do you think that this is something that would work in your city or area? Why or why not?

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