The Water Cycle and Water Pollution | Essentials of Environmental Science
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I imagine you’re familiar with the concept of water. Maybe you’ve gotten caught unprepared in a rainstorm, watched ducks hang out in a pond, had a snowball fight, or swam in the ocean. If so, you were witnessing part of the water cycle. But the water cycle, or the hydrologic cycle, if you want to get multi-syllabic about it, is more than just what we can see. The hydrologic cycle links together the atmosphere, the soil, and all the living and nonliving parts of this planet.
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Host: Joe Hanson, Ph.D.
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I just learned so much more than I thought I was going to
Thanks for posting this. I spent 25 years working on water and wastewater treatment plants and facilities.
If this type of work interests you, consider a career as a water or wastewater treatment plant operator. The average age of these people are in the mid 50's and our society is going to need thousands of trained operators to run plants all over the world. And the careers can encompass everything from pipefitting to microbiology. Most entry level positions can be obtained with a Associate Degree from your local community college. And of course, the more education you bring to the table, the higher the salary.
Consider a career providing clean water to your friends, families and neighbors.
"Without cultural and political buy-in, environmental science alone isn't enough to protect our water systems."
I like the information density of this video. It should be the standard for CZcams videos.
I found it "just right". These guys produce really good quality videos.
@@a.randomjack6661 .
Could you please put the measurements in metrics on the screen as well? I have no clue how much 80-100 gallons of water is..
You don't have to say the metric amounts. Just showing it on screen is more than enough ^^
You can look it up on google.
Ex.
"100 gallons = in ???"
Or
"$75 USD is how many €?"
Or
"3 feet is how many inches?
Etc.
@@whatabouttheearth I can pause the video, look it up, and continue with the video, but then I'm the only one who knows it. The next person who doesn't know gallons also has to look it up. And the one who watches it after them also has to do it.
Meanwhile, they can look it up once and show it on screen which makes it much easier and more enjoyable for us all to watch :)
Everything should me in metric. Put the imperial on the screen underneath. I'm from the USA and we need to switch. Can't do that until people learn it.
@@PaulsPubAndBrew I couldn't agree more!
@@PaulsPubAndBrew It was produced in the USA primarily for Americans. For good or for ill, these folks understand imperial measurements far better than metric ones. Since the objective is communication and not metric conversion, the producers are wise to use the measurements most readily understood by the targeted audience. No need to erect barriers to understanding.
I agree, though, that metric references should at least be used in captions, etc., to help the video mean more to a broader audience.
Me after watching this video: *speaks in Sith* _Have you...ever heard the Tragedy of the Commons?_
I'm so happy that hot mess is back !
The reboot of this show is so very much better than it was. Thank you! I learned stuff, and I heard a conversation about complex balancing acts which don't cast humans as evil. And I heard an openness to ideas I wasn't hearing before.
All around a way better show.
“The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again” (Ecclesiastes 1:6-7).
7:18 That moment when you fully expect to see Post10 in his natural habitat.
Thank you my environmental science teacher doesn’t lecture just sends us a PowerPoint and I can’t learn off of just reading it so this helped me so much
The Civil Engineer in me kinda geeked out when I saw the title. Great video btw💯
I know this video isn't just for use in schools, but it would be great if it could be used more. It's a good piece, with lots of terrific information - maybe too much information, or at least, too much at once. It's too dense, I think, for effective use in many classrooms. I wish it (or a version of it) had been broken into, say, three 'chunks' - each about one-third as long as the video is now. There are some pretty big concepts here, and it would be a good idea to give students a chance to digest each of them before moving on. I imagine my students' (6th and 7th grade) eyes glazing over completely by about half the way in.
Wait, wait, go back. What was that thing about water falling out of the sky? Is that really a thing? Where does it happen? How often? That sounds absolutely terrifying. 😕
And I'm sure some are sick of it but Keystone species aren't always what you think. In Yellowstone park reintroducing wolfs 'fixed' the rivers because they ate the deers who were overeating the plants on the rivers edge and those plants being allowed to grow and root created more solid ground stabilizing the riverbanks. So wolfs, changed the course of the river.
How can you peacefully sleep knowing that all these bad things are happening in the world?
I've always been into ecology and climate change related topics, but now the more I read/watch the more I feel powerless and frustrated.
Although I'm aware of the importance of being informed, I'm starting to take distance from the news about climate change :(
I heard about this overwhelming feeling before in another CZcams video and if I'm not mistaken, it is a pretty common feeling that most people would have. I also do feel it too at times, but, we must not give up in this face of adversity. Anyways, it's okay to take a break from these horrible facts. We must take care of our mental health too :D
It clicks a change watch the problem then solution of it take it as practice and then look over another problem we don't need to solve everything to awareness but more awakening means doing things possibly.
So insightful thanks!
Congratulations Bill! Now you're a Law! Schoolhouse Rock forever!
This is an amazingly put together video! damn props to you guys!
Thank u sooo much for this video without u I wouldn't be able to study for my environmental science class! You are the best!!
Really clear explanation on why it is important to protect water sheds that everyone should already know but doesn't. Why should those in power ignore this vital information and act to protect their citizens. Oh yeah, money and profit before lives. ..
If you like water, you should like this video.
Beavers are cool! 😎
Thank you
what a naturalist sees: 400 million beavers
what a European sees: 400 million hats
Just saying, so long as our economic system is design around the pursuit of economic growth, there is no way we will be able to keep our production below the sustainable yield. The only way we will be able to save our resources is to either autocratically force everyone to produce less or to democratize the commons so that everyone has a say in how we move forward.
I watched this video 9 months after adding it to my watch later list 😂
😂😂😂
Thanks man. You're awesome 👌 good explanation ❤
Great video!! I only have one problem... please add the metric measurements as well. It would be awsome if it was in writing on the screen. You know cuz not everyone is American😂
At 0:13 I count 4 syllables, is that not enough ob e multisyllabic?
Why not harvest the algae
Hog Wash chronicles the efforts of a group of international environmentalists, investors, and researchers as they attempt to find an ecologically friendly process to clean-up the toxic waste pouring into lakes, rivers, and streams from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). This book begins in New Orleans but quickly transitions to Brussels, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome. Hog Wash is a first-hand account of what can go terribly wrong when well-intentioned, but naïve academics confront savvy, experienced conmen. There was too much at stake for this project to ever be successful. Too many powerful, wealthy people had too much to lose by protecting the environment. Hog Wash is the third installment of John W. Sutherlin’s ‘environmental trilogy’. Like his previous books, Hog Wash is methodically documented and written in an accessible style that is more like a novel than nonfiction.
Mesmerising to think that this cycle was written 3500 years ago 😮 Job 36: 27,28
BRAZILIANS, RISE UP!
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Great
If everyone in the world adopted a plant based diet, there would be no need for any fishing at all.
3rd
interesting
Anyone else get a powerful thirst watching this?
2nd?
What does Joe has a PhD in?
Its alright i found it, Cell and Molecular Biology.
What is a gallon?
A measurment of capacity, in this sense of liquid.
You can google conversions to what system your region use, type something like "10 gallons is how many xxx"
××× being your measurement system
Almost 4 liters.
Hi
1st
My ex was so religious she didnt understand how the water cycle worked
I'm wondering how being religious affects one's understanding the water cycle,
Educate people to not consume seafood or consume it less. This will eventually reduce fishing
Shilpan Shukla international coglamurates wouldn't care, and a lot of people are greedy and don't care about the world or others, and a lot of people say that short term benefits are better than long term ones.
Second
Take a shot every time he says fish.
Laws? Education? :/ Sadly it helps but it's not enough
Ironic this video talks about mitigating the tragedy of the commons, yet spotlights a Florida watershed xD. If water district officials here said we need to stop overpumping and preserve, they'll be quickly replaced, sadly, at the moment
12:00 tragedy of the commons is a useless concept. The problem is a mismanagement. Old communities have figured out how to keep things sustainable for centuries. You're going to have to talk about capitalism one day :)
Lets day old communities making it possible to be sustainable but what about large commercial groups??
@@perceivingnature Tragedy of the "privates"
But now we are post industrial revolution. Without the concept you couldn't even say "the problem is mismanagement". "Old" comnunities dont stay old under development of industrialism and population growth. The point of the concept of the 'tragedy of the commons' is to prevent mismanagement.
"Old" communities, whatever that means (I think I know), do not have to manage a population as large.
There is more than simply corporations, global population in 1AD was about 360 million (the apx size of the US today)....in 1800: 1 billion....in 1900: 2 billion...in 2020: 7.7 billion. Do you see the problem? Global population has growing at an insane rate in the last 200 years.
The Invasive Species Act of 2003 enabled the extermination of free sources of food, building materials, medicine, fuel and pest control like an implemented preemptive scorched earth policy that makes living off the land near impossible.
Where once were food forests now are monoculture pine plantations.
Growing pine trees in Egypt is very water intensive and the drought resistant camelthorn trees from South Africa would be more suitable.
Plants need carbon dioxide to breathe and cover the desserts. Covering the desserts with succulent plants like prickly pears and tequila plants slow sea level rise by locking water away and will cast shadows that other plants may use to get established.
The easiest way to recycle plastic is to distill it into fuel.
Distilling excrement into fuel will prevent the excrement from farms from contaminating the soil or rivers.
Instead of distilling excrement, plastic and rubber into fuel, said input materials are dumped into holes to make the linear oil industry profitable.
Rubber tires can be stuffed with sand and used to build houses.
The war on drugs could be won by licensing stovetop pot stills to properties, instead of imposing a super tax on alcohol which makes the illegal drug industry profitable. Bars and clubs are acceptable casualties as they promote driving home under the influence of alcohol where domestic parties tend to be sleepovers.
Really wanted to watch the whole video, but the repeated high-pitched jingling/ringing in the background music is too distracting :-\