Science Lab ph 1 IP
Name: Karen Brockert
Date: 01/05/2015
Instructor’s Name: Professor Jackson
Assignment: SCI203 Phase 1 Lab Report
Title: Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater
Part I: Using the time progression of industrialization and human development, fill in the data table below to help you write up your lab report
Time
Period
Impact to
Forest
Ground water levels plenty Saltwater
Intrusion
Farming
Industrial development Populati on 1800s
enormous
none
minute
none
limited
1900s
Down
50%
Down 50%
Moved into Larger but fewer Exceptional growth increased
2000s
Down
90%
Down 90%
Greater movement Same # size down
20%
Down
10-15 %
Down
10-15 %
Part II :
The purpose of this lab is to show the sustainability of groundwater, if human development continues, at the same rate it has been, over the last few decades.
Over the last 50 years our water demand has tripled, which is causing water tables all over the world to fail, and when these aquifers are depleted, worldwide food production will fall.
I have looked over the data provided, and have come to the conclusion, that if we do not control our population, we will likely experience worldwide famine, maybe even have it as the catalyst for the next world war.
Data collected from the M.U.S.E. in the virtual classroom, located at cut online, also researched on the internet, from the Google search bar, Nairaland forum, and WOA.
Documentation, from these resources, and research, written in the following paragraphs.
Stated in a 2009 report, that if the world population reached 7.5 billion, by 2020, 1.8 billion people, would be living in regions with extreme water scarcity. In a current report
as of December 1, 2014, our global population, has already reached over 7 billion, and futuristically, Africa is the only nation that is capable of self-sustaining. The Americans,
Chinese, and Europeans, aspire to live a certain life style that will ultimately end in a survival of the fittest. Several studies show
Date: 01/05/2015
Instructor’s Name: Professor Jackson
Assignment: SCI203 Phase 1 Lab Report
Title: Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater
Part I: Using the time progression of industrialization and human development, fill in the data table below to help you write up your lab report
Time
Period
Impact to
Forest
Ground water levels plenty Saltwater
Intrusion
Farming
Industrial development Populati on 1800s
enormous
none
minute
none
limited
1900s
Down
50%
Down 50%
Moved into Larger but fewer Exceptional growth increased
2000s
Down
90%
Down 90%
Greater movement Same # size down
20%
Down
10-15 %
Down
10-15 %
Part II :
The purpose of this lab is to show the sustainability of groundwater, if human development continues, at the same rate it has been, over the last few decades.
Over the last 50 years our water demand has tripled, which is causing water tables all over the world to fail, and when these aquifers are depleted, worldwide food production will fall.
I have looked over the data provided, and have come to the conclusion, that if we do not control our population, we will likely experience worldwide famine, maybe even have it as the catalyst for the next world war.
Data collected from the M.U.S.E. in the virtual classroom, located at cut online, also researched on the internet, from the Google search bar, Nairaland forum, and WOA.
Documentation, from these resources, and research, written in the following paragraphs.
Stated in a 2009 report, that if the world population reached 7.5 billion, by 2020, 1.8 billion people, would be living in regions with extreme water scarcity. In a current report
as of December 1, 2014, our global population, has already reached over 7 billion, and futuristically, Africa is the only nation that is capable of self-sustaining. The Americans,
Chinese, and Europeans, aspire to live a certain life style that will ultimately end in a survival of the fittest. Several studies show