The document discusses several ways that human activities harm bodies of water. It notes that oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and are home to thousands of species, but they are used as global garbage cans with millions of chemicals dumped in annually. Specific harms discussed include offshore drilling releasing contaminated water, oil spills which often go unreported, overfishing causing species depletion, and commercial fishing methods that destroy habitats. Cruise ships and untreated waste also contribute to water pollution. The document advocates for eliminating straight pipes, regulating bycatch and overfishing, preventing oil spills, and conserving fresh water usage to help protect bodies of water.

1. Water, Water, Everywhere. So Many Drops We Spare“Water and air, the twoessential fluids on which all life depends, havebecome global garbage cans.”Jacques Cousteau

2. WaterThe world depends on its bodies of water for survival. Without these bodies of water, life would not be able to survive on earth. The oceans of the earth cover 71% of our earth’s surface.

3. WaterEvery year millions of chemicals and foreign bodies are dumped into our oceans, rivers and lakes. . In addition, millions of ocean and lake habitats are destroyed due to commercial fishing and oil industries that destroy the habitats of the creatures that inhabit the bodies of water in the world.

4. WaterOceans, which are actually one continuous body of water, and lakes, are home to thousands of different species of fish, marine worms, plankton, mammals and coral that not only create beauty in the oceans, but help sustain life as well.

5. How We Harm Our Waters-Offshore DrillingEvery day oil rigs are pumping millions of gallons of contaminated water into the ocean.This water, what they call PFW or produced formation water, is returned back into the ocean after it is separated from the oil. However, not all the oil or chemicals used for drill the crude oil is able to be removed from the PFW.

6. How We Harm Our Waters-Offshore DrillingOne rig can contaminate 8,000 square feet of oceans with over a meter of thick drilling waste.This waste can last up to 40 years before it is destroyed

7. How We Harm Our Waters-Oil SpillsOil spills are the single biggest killer of animals and habitats within the world oceans.Ninty-seven percent of all oil spills that occur are not even reported because they are under 1000 barrelsEstimates state that only 5%-15% of any oil spill can actually be cleaned up.

8. How We Harm Our Waters-Oil Spills (Exxon Valdez)This video gives a good insight as to what led up to the spill, and its aftermathhttp://youtu.be/YkzB1ZYcTwM

9. How We Harm Our Waters-Oil Spills (Exxon Valdez)Up to 12 million gallons of oil was spilt into the water of the Prince William Sound.The oil eventually covered 11,000 square miles of ocean and 1,300 miles of coast line.A quarter million sea birds, 2,800 sea otters, and countless numbers of fish and other ocean baring creatures such as salmon were killed due to the Exxon Valdez oil spill

10. How We Harm Our Waters-Oil Spills (Deepwater Horizon)The Deepwater Horizon oil spill allowed 4.9 million barrels, or 53,000 barrels a day, worth of oil spill into the gulf coast.This spills 3,850 square mile area of oil contaminated ocean effects much more than just the area of the spill.

11. How We Harm Our Waters-Oil Spills (Deepwater Horizon)The spill resulted in 86,985 square miles of the gulf fishery to be closed to fishing because of unknown contaminates that may have reached these regions of the Gulf. This area accounts for about 36% of the Gulf of Mexico’s waters.

12. How We Harm Our Waters-Commercial FishingBycatchEvery year 20 million pounds of fish and other marine creatures are killed and discarded as a result of overfishing and bycatch

13. How We Harm Our Waters-Commercial FishingOver FishingOver fishing creates long term ecological changes to marine ecosystems.Over fishing has resulted in the depletion and extinction of over 90 species of marine animals.

14. How We Harm Our Waters-Commercial FishingCommercial Fishing Method Promote Habitat DestructionTrawling-Trawling refers to towing a large net behind a boat.Trawling for these creatures usually results in up to 25% of an areas seabed life being destroyed in a single pass.The nets and other fishing equipment that these companies use can be lost or intentionally thrown into the ocean.

15. How We Harm Our Waters-CruisesThe largest cruise ship in the world is 1,181 feet long and can carry up to 6,400 passengers for weeks at a time.

16. How We Harm Our Waters-CruisesIn one week, an average cruise ship is able to generate 210,000 gallons of sewage.1,000,000 gallons of grey water37,000 gallon of oily bilge water

17. How We Harm Our Waters-Fresh water pollutionForty-six percent of America’s rivers are too polluted to fishpales in comparison to America’s lakes in which 46% are plagued by pollutionEvery year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage and other wastes are dumped into our rivers and lakes.

18. How We Harm Our Waters-Fresh water pollutionMilfoilPollution is the main cause for milfoilMilfoil spreads so fast in bodies of water that it literally suffocates the native plants Asian Jumping Carp There are numerous reasons as to how these carp got here, but the main reason is international trade.Asian carp eat the majority of food found in these ecosystems causing the other native animals and plants to leave or die out.

19. How We Harm Our Waters-Wasting water

20. How We Harm Our Waters-Wasting waterThe average American citizen uses about 176 gallons, 681 liters, 704 quarts, or 1,408 pints of water a day.That is equivalent in volume to 1,877 cans of Mountain Dew.. A family of 4 therefore uses 256,960 gallons of water a yearThis is enough water to fill 2.5 average high school pools full of water.

21. How We Can Save Our WaterEliminate Straight pipes Eliminating these would mean 60 million gallons of oil, 2 billion pounds of trash, 850 million gallons of raw sewage, and 34 billion liters of chemicals waste would not be dumped into the world bodies of water.Regulate Bycatch and OverfishingEliminate oil spillsSimply use less watertake 5 or even 7 minute showers instead of 10run the sink less