Argument paragraph #2: Lubbock water crisis

Par. 2

 My first approach is to contact the people who are water experts and discuss how long current water sources are going last, collect some demographic information such as population growth, current water industrial and residential demand and demand increased rate, peak time duration and etc. Moreover, collect some climate data over the past years such as rainfall data, temperature, etc. Other than it is highly recommended to consider people's perceptions because water crisis is controversial problem and more relative to community. After that, rigorous statistical model is created to predict parameters which relates to the problem for the future. As statistical analysis, if the population continues to grow, shortages of fresh water will occur more often and desalination of sea water is good permanent solution for this problem. Because of current technological processes must be done on a large scale to be useful to large populations, and also the current processes are high initial cost, energy-intensive, high cost for maintenance and involve large-scale facilities. In my opinion making illegal for fracking is not a good for economy. Fracking uses more water and besides providing dirty water which should be removed harmful thing to people because of it can contaminate with ground water.  (SG)

Par. 2

                  In Texas, groundwater is possessed by landowners; this is Texas tradition and law. Landowners have the right to pump water as much as they want from their well. Moreover, all regulations for utilizing the groundwater are very beneficial to the landowner, thus it may cause Lubbock water crisis.

                  If we got a significant amount of money to research or improve the water crisis, I will definitely use funding to improve Texas regulations and install water meter. I think that water fee should be paid as much as consumer used. Many residents pay the water fee as much as they use, but landowners do not pay water fee just because they have their well. The different rate of water fee should be charged because some parts of water fee include water supply services. For that purpose, the water meter should be installed for charging the water fee to landowners. (MK)

Argument paragraph # 2

If we get a significant amount of money to research or improve the water crisis, we should spend it to do research about finding long-term solutions for this problem. At this time, spending money for research is more important than spending for a physical solution, because Lubbock has enough water for several years (Young, 2013) and water will be a critical issue if we couldn’t find better solutions in the long-term. Various research and experiments can be conducted to investigate different solutions such as new ground water resources, how to protect existing ground water resources, new alternatives to water for fracking, different ways of recycling waste water, possible ways to collect and conserve rain water before evaporating, suitable plants to drought areas that help to protect water cycle, etc. Because of the fruitful outcome of these researches and its effects on finding better solutions for the Lubbock water crisis, spending money to research would be a valuable investment. On the other hand, if we spend water for a physical solution, it would be only a short-term solution, which is not the most essential solution right now.   

Considering these facts, spending money to research is a smarter decision than spending money for a physical solution. (CD)

Reference

Young, A.D. (2013, August, 16). City disputes 24/7 Wall Street claims that Lubbock is running out of water. Retrieved on November 16, 2013 from http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2013-08-16/city-disputes-247-wall-street-claims-lubbock-running-out-water#.UoWbINznZdg

Par. 2

If we get a significant amount of money to improve the water crisis, we should invest it to desalinate seawater. There is around ninety seven percent of water on earth contained within the oceans (Cain, 2010). If we can efficiently desalinate this seawater, we will be about to solve the water crisis over the world permanently. Thus, we don't need to live an uncomfortable life to save water if we can desalinate water more efficiently. The water price would be very cheap. Therefore, we can water our lawn as much as we want and we can use as much water as we want to wash our cars; we can enjoy our lives without worrying about water waste. This is because every drop of water you wasted would either go into the ocean where we can desalinate it back or go into the aquifer where we can use it as well. As a result, desalination would be the most efficient way to solve the water crisis in the future. (CL)

How should we spent money on the water crisis?

Today the water crisis has become one of the significant global problems. There are some ways which help countries to solve the water problem like conservation, desalination or learning how to purify the dirty water, learning how to recycle water in an efficient way to save more, and learning how to replenish the aquifer better, and so on. But, the most important factor to solve the water problem is having enough money. I am of the opinion that if the government has enough money to solve the water crisis, it should spend the money to learn how to purify water. Indeed, there is enough water in the world, but the problem is people cannot use the entire amount of water, due to the fact the water is impure and dirty, and it is not appropriate to drink or for healthy use. Therefore, if we have enough money, it is really beneficial to spend it to purify the dirty water. Purifying water is much more important for the remote areas, because in those areas there are so many people who are dying annually due to the use of unclean water. But people in those areas do not have any other choice. They do not have enough money to purify water, and they need water to be alive. Thus, if we allocate the money to purify water we can save many people from death.  (SH)

Par. 2

The Lone Star state of Texas is famous throughout the world for its oil resources, but it is time that the state started focusing its resources on another precious liquid - water. The recent droughts in the state have not only shown how critical the problem of water is, but also has shown us how unprepared the state is to deal with the problem. Conservation, reclamation and reuse of water should be the focus of the state resources. These measures would not only play a critical role in helping the state deal with the problem of water shortage, but also would help the state continue on its growth path. Conservation of water can be enforced in multiple methods; increasing the cost of utilities, water use restrictions are just a few of the methods that the state should enforce to better meet its need of water. Reclamation and reuse would require bringing the cities utilities up to date with current technologies. Though these measures of conservation, reclamation and reuse of water are expensive, they are practically proven methods of water management. (RS)

How should we spend on water problem?

First of all, in terms of priority drinking water should be provided for the residents. In order to do that, a water purification center in a large scale suitable for the city demands should be built. Then, it comes to demands of farmers and industries that may require building dam on rivers, or making channel and pipelines to distribute water from its source. Finally, it comes to regulation of how to use water that requires both time and human resources to establish rules and perform them in a best fashion. [N.K.]

Argument Paragraph 2

 

      If Lubbock got a significant amount of money, the most important thing would be to invest in more infrastructure, such as buying some drilling machine to explore the water underground or buying some desalination machine to make water clean. The reason I suggest that is because only finding water support is a good solution for a long time, and we also have to keep saving water. Even though there are a lot of problems out there waiting for us to solve, providing dirty water for frackers or making fracking illegal is not a long-term solution. For instance, the water resource is like a salary. If you don’t have any income, no matter how thrifty you are, the bank balance will still go down. Therefore, as long as we have a stable water supply, the following questions will be trivial issues and be solved easily. Besides, in reality, promoting public projects will be smooth if we have a significant amount of money. Sometimes, the reason that governments could not implement the right thing is because of money. However, it is time that we have our support now and make water crisis right. (SYH)

Where to invest money to attack the water crisis

                  To resolve situations or problems many times it takes a great deal of work, time, and even money. Also if you really want to solve problems you should attack them from the bottom. Therefore if we want to attack the crisis of water I support the idea that we have to educate and make conscience in the people; this is where I would invest for two reasons. The first one is, if you have to educate people it is easier that they understand what the problem really is, and then you can teach them how to use water efficiently. The second is for the simple reason that an educated person has more criteria than one who’s not.

                  On the other hand we have the industry; well, for them, just implement restrictions and ensure compliance.

                  How can we prepare and make conscience in the people? Well, It could be making programs in three different regions. The first in the elementary schools for kids; second is in parks and public places for adolescents and adults, and the third and the most powerful I guess is putting commercials on television. (JAPCH)

Argument paragraph: What could our community do on water problems?

Problems related to water resources have become increasingly urgent, thus requiring both physical solutions and theoretical research to respond our community's needs. There are many methods to protect water resources falling into two categories, water conservation and recycling of vital water resources. Solutions related to water conservation could be policies, strategies, and activities to manage fresh water as a sustainable resource to protect the water environment and to meet the current and future demand. Recycling of vital water resources encompasses solutions to treat wastewater for usage in sustainable landscaping irrigation and recharge groundwater aquifers. Practical solutions that our community can do on water problems should base on those two categories. Enhancing people's perception towards water problems should be considered a long-term solution. Perception can lead to saving water actions in everyday activities such as brushing teeth, bathing, and so on. As such, everyone in our community can participate in both particular and general strategies to help protecting and saving water resources which should lead to a more sustainable usage in the future. (DP)

Argument paragraph #2

If we have a significant amount of money, I think we should use it to study how to make dirty water recycled. We can build an effective water recycling system, and then we can let frackers and the oil industry use dirty water which had been cleaned. Second, we can build some large reservoirs to prevent water shortages and drought. Although Lubbock has found a new water source, the Lubbock’s water supply had an impact caused by Lake Meredith which dried up in 2012. So we need to take some measures to protect our water sources; for example, we can limit farmers pumping from the lake. We can also talk to farmers to install more technical irrigation system, and we can hire some scientists to study of these and invent more efficient irrigation machines for us. Rainwater is also an important source of Lubbock’s water supply, so we can make some artificial rainfall when we have a good chance.(QK)

Argumentative Paragraph No. 2

Underground water systems have formed during thousands years. For human beings, however, it takes a few decades to totally deplete water sources. In west Texas underground water system has reached a point that no normal amount of precipitation can replenish it (Goldenberg, 2013). If the current trends continue in the future, the water system will reach the no-return point where it is impossible to revive it. Therefore, keeping the water system from drying out should be the focus of budget planning and public investment. Since the only way to revive the water system is to increase the level of precipitation, I suggest that Texas invest on cloud seeding and weather modification technologies. Effective usage of these technologies will significantly increase the amount of precipitation. Significant increase in precipitation will replenish underground water resources and alleviate or totally solve the water crisis. (HS) 

Reference:

Goldenberg, S. (2013, Aug. 11). A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water. The Guardian. Retrieved on Aug. 28, 2013 from http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/11/texas-tragedy-ample-oil-no-water