Hydrosphere Current Event Discussion Board by Benjamin Williams https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3 Shalom. en-us 2018-04-16 11:57:24 UTC 2018-04-27 17:14:48 UTC hello@padlet.com "The Power Plants That May Save a Park, and Aid a Country" 834728 https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252094746 As Africa’s faces a loss of electricity for their famous Virunga National Park, due to having such a small hydroelectric power plant that only allows about 3 percent of the region to have electricity. However, with the help of Howard Buffett son of a billionaire businessman, began a project near the Virunga National Park that would allow a bigger hydroelectric plant to be built and would result to having an increase of 12 percent of electricity available to a population of 80 million. After reading this article I want to leave this question with you, do you think that if hydroelectricity was cheaper that more people would jump on board with this idea and would it allow poor countries such as Africa to have an increase in business such as industries?]]> 2018-04-16 12:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252094746 Fighting Ocean Pollution At The Source 1467923 https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252280622  The article I read talks about how a beach in East Java called Muncar is suffering from the rest of the worlds lackluster effort to cut down on plastic pollution.
“You cannot see the sand anymore because the beaches are just full of waste. And then the high tide takes the waste away,” she says. “The people there don’t have any other choice.”
     The developing world is dotted with places like Muncar. The problem is particularly acute in China and in the Southeast Asian countries of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. These five countries alone are responsible for most of the plastics that end up in the ocean.
     In such countries, rising affluence is allowing people to buy more plastic-wrapped food and drink than they could before. But infrastructure hasn’t kept up, leaving citizens with no environmentally sound means to throw stuff away.
 The article goes on to say that most of the people that live in Muncar just want the rest of the world to cut down their plastic waste some how. However there are some people in Muncar that feel that the world as a whole needs to eliminate the use plastics.
  I feel that it would be almost impossible to replace plastic completely so we need to find some other way to dispose of our plastics without harming our environment.
My question is how would you solve this issue?
]]> 2018-04-16 18:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252280622 African Water Quality https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252520542 Hunter Barbour - 
Africa has very little fresh water,  most of the water they do have is dirty and will be harmful to them. Some of the causes of these dirty water sources are urbanization, industry mining and accidental water pollution. 
When the water is contaminated, it will get toxins in the farms and plants and could harm people if they eat the food. Some health affects with this problem are cholera, malaria and some lethal parasites. People donate everyday to help out with this problem. A question I have for you is would you help out with this by donating money or bottled water or just anything you can?]]> 2018-04-17 12:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252520542 "Population and Water Resources" https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252573133 Nicole Biancone-
The population in the United States continues to grow each year and this rapid population growth is taking a toll on our water resources. The current population of the United States is about 325.7 million. By the year 2050, that number will more than likely exceed 400 million.
The article I read talks about the current problems the Unites States is facing with the quality of water, water resources and how the growing population is effecting those things.
As people use water, many chemicals and other harmful materials are added to it making it harder to be used again. Water that is used for agricultural irrigation washes away chemicals that have been used for plants. It is very expensive to get these chemicals and other materials removed from the water so that it can be used again. If the quality of a water source is so contaminated, it makes it almost impossible to make it usable again.
As the population grows, the demand for water is going to grow with it. In the next fifty years, many regions around the world will be facing significant water shortages. Although this problem only seems to be growing, there are many ways to prevent so many water shortages from happening in the future. The country, and other countries around the world, should try to slow the rate of population increase and modify how much water is being used in different areas.
I think that these solutions could defiantly prevent many areas from having severe water shortages. I don't think that these solutions should be the only solutions.
What other ways do you think the population effects water resources? What other solutions do you think could prevent severe water shortages?
“Population and Water Resources.” Water Encyclopedia, www.waterencyclopedia.com/Po-Re/Population-and-Water-Resources.html.]]> 2018-04-17 13:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminwilliams2/f67e2cteaqb3/wish/252573133