ENV222H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ogallala Aquifer, Aquifer, Planetary Boundaries

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV222H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

No oxygen present: reason for this is purely anthropogenic. Monsoons in the south are necessary to support plant and agricultural life; aerosol makes this harder. Green water and the blue water are destroyed. Ogallala aquifer (natural storage of water) spans 8 different states. Now because the demand for water is growing. The aquifer is pumping out to much water. Land use change the best and fertile land in ontario us being used to build condos, parking lots, and high rise building. Biodiversity is also struggling as a result currently, we are facing the 6th largest extinction in the world (last one was the dinosaurs) Every time we drink water from lake ontario we are ingesting chemicals: when we try and clean the water we cannot get rid of all the chemicals. As a result, we don"t know the combined effect this can have.