Thursday, April 30, 2009

Where does Colorado Springs water come from?


Where does Colorado Spring's water come from? 75% of water comes from mountain springs such as in Aspen, Leadville and Breckenridge.Pipes transfer the water down to be stored in reservoirs like Rampart Reservoirs and Catamount Reservoirs. From the reservoir water is taken to treatment before entering homes and businesses. 25% of the water comes from local surface waters and local ground water sources. Including pikes peak northern and southern slopes,Cheyenne Creek, and Fountain Creek.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Water Cycle Activity

The water cycle is the process in which how the environment works and the ways it works. Like when evaporation occurs from all the waters like river,lakes, and streams. And all that makes condensation from out of the clouds. Then from the clouds comes rain. And from the rain comes precipitation which leads to the runoff. The runoff leads straight to the groundwater.

Mercury

Thursday, April 16, 2009

My 4 questions on Mercury....

  1. Im going to research why they use mercury and why they use it for production.
  2. The conclusion i came to is that they use it because it is a metal and it conducts a lot of electricity and it is a hard metal so they use it for heavy stuff. What i think people sould do is stop using things that have mercury because the results could come out at it's worse. Your electricit could get cut if you use it for light. An easy way to help this is stop using those lights and do a lot of recycling.
  3. If people didn't listen to my recommendation then this could spread all over the world and a lot of people would have trouble with lights and everything. Peoples bills would be hire and it would be all a big mess. You could even lose your house for not being able to pay for it. It's so powerful that one gram of it could kill a 20 acre lake. And raise awareness for a hole town.
  4. If everybody listened the world would be energy conserved. And a lot of people could pay there bills and they wouldn't be to high of a price. The world would actually be a better place. There wouldn't be so many bad things happening to the world like, dealths of people, plant's, animals, and a lot of more dealths or illnessess.