3. Water - Pure? • The Explanation

Water Resources: Coral Reefs, Sodas, Colorado River and Crops

by Sam Kneller | Oct 17, 2017 | > Read Audit otU online, 3. Water - Pure?

Water resources cover the entire range of human activities. From recreation, thirst-quenching, bathing, and crop production. It is a commodity we cannot forgo. Humans need clean water. Coral Reef Destruction The increase of carbon dioxide by 41 percent since 1990 in...

Nourishing Water: Fish, Fishing Villages, Dead Zones and Shipwrecks

by Sam Kneller | Oct 10, 2017 | > Read Audit otU online, 3. Water - Pure?

Water, the natural habitat of fish, nourishes one billion people on our planet. We might tend to shy away from this slithery nourishment, but for many, it is life. Life in a Cambodian Fishing Village We are floating on the Tonle Sap River in Cambodia, observing the...

Wastewater or Chemically Cleaned Water, that’s Today’s Norm

by Sam Kneller | Oct 3, 2017 | > Read Audit otU online, 3. Water - Pure?

Bathing and cleansing in wastewater—what a paradox. Unfortunately, a reality in poorer countries around the world. Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Is our worldwide water supply headed towards wastewater or clean water? It’s sad that we even have to ask or...

Water to Transport People and Goods or a Giant Garbage Patch

by Sam Kneller | Sep 26, 2017 | > Read Audit otU online, 3. Water - Pure?

Vegetable patch or garbage patch? We’ll take the former anytime. But, humankind is creating the latter in our oceans, of all places. Garbage patch of plastic. Simply put, water transports more than ocean vessels—in plants and in most living creatures it carries...

The Aral Sea Story – How Humanity Uses and Misuses Water

by Sam Kneller | Sep 19, 2017 | > Read Audit otU online, 3. Water - Pure?

The Aral Sea is just one example of water shortage and humanity’s role in wasting this prime commodity. The Aral Sea Story “Next on the menu, food from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and water from the Aral Sea, and souvenir T-shirts for everyone,”...

The Hydrologic Cycle Continues but Where the Water Goes has Changed.

by Sam Kneller | Sep 12, 2017 | > Read Audit otU online, 3. Water - Pure?

The hydrologic cycle continues unabated, but drying up and removing wetlands forces water to run off and accumulate where it wouldn’t usually go. Human behavior does affect the climate, and it comes back to batter us like a boomerang. Water tells the story of...