Earth is the only planet in our solar system that provides a suitable environmen

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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that provides a suitable environment for life as we know it. Sustaining these conditions requires a constant recycling of materials between the living and nonliving components of eco-systems. Select one of material cycles we studied (water, nitrogen, carbon, sulphur and phosphorus) and identify elements of your lifestyle that impact the cycle.

a. What are the most considerable impacts you make?

b. How might it change your life if you were to reduce your impacts? What would you need to give up?

c. How difficult is to balance personal choices with environmental considerations?

Your answer should be between 700–900 words long and should include introduction and conclusion sections.

Explanation / Answer

The water cycle

Introduction

Including me, every human being in the world has an important impact on our water cycle. I have an impact on this cycle by using everyday resources. Usually, we use these resources without thinking much about it. We normally don’t think about uses of these resources that are available for the people. I used water supplied by our community water supply system.

Water is always available for us. But our daily life impact on our water cycle in numerous ways. Some of our actions deliberately affect the water cycle and other activities unintentionally impact on our water cycle.

Every day at home I use water for all the things such as drinking, preparing food, bathing, washing clothes and dishes, brushing my teeth, watering the yard and garden that have an impact on our water cycle. Water that comes from our community water supply system has been cleaned from bacteria and so on. This water is coming from reservoirs that are filled by the rain and groundwater. After a recycling process, the used and dirty water goes back into this cycle.

Water is required to produce our daily life products such as plastics, food and the most of things. These products form pollution that has affected the water cycle. For example, industries and traffic is the cause of the rain acid that makes the plants ill. If I don’t think about the plastic waste or buy plastic products, which polluted the groundwater by releasing chemicals and other toxins. These pollutants enter the water cycle either as insoluble materials or as a dissolved load.

So, every time when I use a plastic product or produced with water, I have also an impact on our water cycle.

Every day I consume a lot of electricity in my home by using electrical devices. Electricity has an impact on our water cycle. For example, the stations use coal because coal is mined in crafts. If an amount of coal is reduced in the soil, then water is not properly filtered and clean as before. So, fewer trees grow on the crafted soil and less condensate that produces less water in the reverse and also rivers become polluted increasingly.

Remarkably it changes my life when I try to reduce my impacts on the environment by diminishing my comfort. Maybe I think about the consequence, about the products that I buy from markets. I could think about the production system that releases the toxin in the economic cycling during producing the products.

To find a way for the environment that next to my lifestyle is too hard. If people think about our environment, then we diminish our personal comfort. This step may be helpful for our future. If we reduced our personal comfort then it has a positive impact on our environment. Besides this, our personal budget has also impact on this.

But, if all the people think about our environment, we can overcome our problems like global warming, toxic water and so on. Increasing the earth’s temperature causes increase of evaporation, melting of ice or other processes that affect our water cycle. Therefore, we should take an action to find this solution.

Conclusion

The impact of our water cycle is reduced by changing our behaviors. For that, I can take a shower rather than bath that help in reducing the amount of water, reduce the amounts of plastic waste because much water is required to produce plastic, and I can use public transport to minimize the greenhouse gas production.

The water cycle is largely effect by using electronic devices and light bulbs, that can be reduced easily.

To reduce the energy consumption in my house, I can use energy saving lamps or LED lamps instead of other light bulbs. If I don’t use them then switch off devices because sometimes they use energy in standby mode.

By using alternate energy sources such as wind and solar energy that used to produce electricity could also have a positive impact on our water cycle.

Growing trees and using low impact development (LID) techniques can be used by both our community and around my home that has a positive effect on our water cycle.

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