Mitigation Plan
Although water is a renewable resource, threats such as pollution, human impact and carelessness will cause an environmental issue that can not be corrected. Water resources are sources of water that are useful to humans, plants, and animals. Examples of water resources are surface water, which are lakes, rivers, or fresh water wetlands. These sources are naturally replenished by precipitation and naturally lost through discharge to the oceans, evaporation, and sub-surface seepage. Water is important because it is needed for all life to exist. Humans require fresh water and can not tolerate large quantities of salt water or ocean water. The Earth is covered by 74% of water. Oceans make up 97% of the water supply, leaving only 3% classified as fresh water. 77% of the fresh water supply is stored as ice, 22% as groundwater and soil moister. That leaves less than 1% in lakes, rivers and wetlands according to the U.S. Department of the Interior (Perlman, 2008) as......
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