Tuesday, August 31, 2010

What is Water Anyway? (Reflection on Reading)

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/may/20-things-you-didn.t-know-about-water

On this site, I read about different facts about, water, drinking water factories, and doctors advices. 5 of my favorite facts were.

E. coli doesn't sound so bad. In 1999 the Natural Resources Defense Council found that one brand of spring water came from a well in an industrial parking lot near a hazardous waste dump.
I found this very interesting because, being a consumer, I should know what type of water i am buying, and were its coming from.

You can make your own water by mixing hydrogen and oxygen in a container and adding a spark. Unfortunately, that is the formula that helped destroy the Hindenburg.
This was very interesting because at first when I read this i wanted to try it out. But then when i saw what it did to the Hindenburg, I started having second thoughts. This is a shame because by making your own water, that is lean and drinkable, you could help many organisations around the world, like in Africa were they do not have access to clean water.

Scientists at Oregon State University have identified vast reservoirs of water beneath the ocean floor. In fact, there may be more water under the oceans than in them.
I think that this is a very funny fact because it is basically saying that they found water... under water, and they find it amazing. But it think that it means that they found drinkable water.

Without water, ocean crust would not sink back into the earth’s mantle. There would be no plate tectonics, and our planet would probably be a lot like Venus: hellish and inert.
This was a very interesting quote because it was something I only partially knew. I knew that the tectonic plates float on the water, but i did not know that it is used so as to cool the hot magma trying to escape the earths core.

Recent evidence suggests that when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago, comets had liquid cores. If so, life may have started in a comet.
I think that this is the most fascinating fact of them all because it is the coolest one. If you would be born on a comet rotating around the sun at high speeds and passing numerous other comets, asteroids, stars and even planets. I also think that if we were able to attach a probe to the next comet that comes close to earth, we could check to see if there are any bacteria, frozen in the ice by taking a specimen, or if there is take a sample of water.

My five fact about water:

Most of the earth's surface consists of water; there is much more water than there is land.

3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.

A lack of water to meet daily needs is a reality today for one in three people around the world.

Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.

The average toilet uses 8 liters of clean water in a single flush.

5 comments:

  1. I like what you wrote about the fact that billions of years ago there used to be water in the core of a comment. I agree with the fact that people should send probes to these nearest passing commets to examine for bacteria or any other types of life. It would simply be amazing to find life on something so unsteadily traveling as a commet. The life on the commet would have to be able to survive in any varied condition and this is what makes the quest for what it is furthermore interesting.

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  2. The one comment I liked the best is: "E. coli doesn't sound so bad. In 1999 the Natural Resources Defense Council found that one brand of spring water came from a well in an industrial parking lot near a hazardous waste dump.
    I found this very interesting because, being a consumer, I should know what type of water i am buying, and were its coming from."

    I find it interesting and I agree with you about knowing what type of water I am buying before I consume it because it is safer to know in any way.

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  3. Do your best to include fewer .com references and more .org/.gov/.edu references to make your facts more reliable.

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  4. Without strong, beneficial intestinal bacteria, humans are susceptible to water-born illnesses. By consuming yogurt or materials that contain active yeasts, your body is outfitted with a natural defense against E. coli bacteria. E. coli are found in the gut, intestines and fecal matter of many common farm animals, including cows. Often drinking water is contaminated when water runoff from farms including high levels of nitrogen and fecal matter make it to acquifers and other well water sources, causing a bloom of harmful bacteria.

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