Running Head: MY WATERSHED MOMENT 1 My Watershed Moment In partial fulfillment of the requirements of OLCU 615: Organization Development and Change July 21, 2013 MY WATERSHED MOMENT 2 My Watershed Moment There are many memories that have happened in my life that are important to me. It is very hard to select one that has really changed or impacted my life as an individual. Considering I am just about half way through my illustrious life building a bank of historical
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What is a watershed?A watershed is simply the geographic area through which water flows across the land and drains into a common body of water, whether a stream, river, lake, or ocean. The watershed boundary will more or less follow the highest ridgeline around the stream channels and meet at the bottom or lowest point of the land where water flows out of the watershed, the mouth of the waterway. Much of the water comes from rainfall and stormwater runoff. The quality and quantity of stormwater
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Wabash Watershed Wabash Watershed (1961-1990) Introduction Global warming is a resultant of Heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. The release of these gases has increased in the last 500 years since the industrial revolution. There is an expectation that global warming will result to rising sea levels, droughts, fires, heat waves, extreme storms, heavy rainfall, floods, and melting of snow and ice. These changes as envisaged would affect agriculture and general food availability with devastating
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Wabash Watershed Rhonda Seals Excelsior Wabash Watershed Global warming affects all of us. This is not just a "them" thing, or a "they" thing. Everyone on the planet needs to be aware of the consequences of their actions in contributing to global warming or as most people know it, The Green House Effect. Mankind has been contributing to this since the beginning of time in one way or another. Granted, we are doing more damage now than we did 100 years ago, but nonetheless
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John Stuart Mills is probably one of the most influential philosophers that have contributed to the moral theories of utilitarianism. Born in London in 1806, Mills was known as a philosopher, economist and political theorist. He has produced several philosophical writings during his time. His most influential contributions in relation to ethics was about Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a moral theory with a basic principle of utility (Well-being or happiness: that is conductive to the happiness
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reverse, the North Side of the city got a better deal than the South Side because they got cleaner water when the South Side didn’t. The Chicago River’s historical watershed flowed from the Chicago River into Lake Michigan and the current watershed flows through the Des Plaines river into the Gulf of Mexico. The reason for this watershed change was due to the reversal of the river when a newer and larger ship canal was stretched through Damen Ave. on the South branch and the town of Lockport on the
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New york city gets its water from 3 major watersheds. The Croton Watershed, is located east of the Hudson River, the Catskill and Delaware Watersheds, which are located in Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan, Ulster. Together they contain about 19 reservoirs “within a 2000-square-mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of New York City”. The Pepacton and the Ashokan are the two largest reservoirs. The pepacton can hold over 140 billion gallons while the Ashokan holds 123 billion gallons
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have on it. I remember when I went on a canoeing trip with my environmental science class down the James River and into the Chesapeake Bay. We were accompanied by the Chesapeake Bay watershed manager, who was there to give us a lecture on the water system that we were riding upon. What the Chesapeake Bay watershed was, what rivers fed into it, and what its importance was. According to him, it was a polluted, graying body of water located between the Virginia mainland and the Eastern Shore that
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River Basin Watershed The Brazos River Watershed is the second largest river basin in Texas, and it extends from eastern New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. It travels into the Gulf of Mexico and runs through different climates that are the home to a variety of plants and animals. For the most part, the Brazos River Watershed is in Texas, however, it reaches from eastern New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. Of its 44,620 square miles, 42,000 square miles are in Texas. The Brazos River Watershed begins 50
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providing adequate public green space. Cities should use the elements given to them in their landscape to create placemaking spaces unique to their location. In the case of Cincinnati, one of our unique qualities is the Ohio River and the Mill Creek Watershed. Previously, industry had priority over these areas which led to desecration of both land and water. For example, waste dumping in the water or the riverfront’s valuable real estate being used for non site specific activities. The proposed site
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