Greenhouse Gas in Water Production

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Greenhouse Gas in Water Production
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Greenhouse Gas in Water Production
Introduction
Greenhouses plays a major role of trapping heat thereby making the planet warmer and
unsuitable for survival of organism. Recent research indicates that human activities are the main
cause of the increased levels of greenhouse gases within the atmosphere for a long period of
about 150 years. Burning of the fossil fuels is considered as the largest contributor of the
increases GHS in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels are always burned for production of the electricity,
heat as well as transportation. Greenhouses gases includes Mathane CH4, carbon dioxide CO2,
nitrous oxide N2O as well as other fluorinated gases such as per-fluorocarbon, hydro-
fluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride SF6 (Lavoie et al, 2017). Due to the emission of the
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, fresh water is being harshly being impacted. Fresh water
that is mostly used by people in the day to day life often comes from rivers, aquifer, lake as well
as rivers. Water being one of the most important inputs that is required by human body and other
organism for survival, it is very essential to protect it from contamination by the greenhouse gas
(Kopsakangas-Savolainen et al, 2017).
Water is needed for health, irrigation, growing of food as well as in various industries.
Contamination of the water resources by the greenhouse gases has severe impact on the health of
people as well as other organism which can lead to death and extinction of biodiversity. The
purpose of this study is to look at the sustainable practice and efficient ways of producing clean
energy to ensure that there is reduction of water contamination. The objective of this study is to
ensure that there reduction in the contamination of the water resources through production of
clean energy at affordable cost. The study will address research question such methods that can
be used to determining GHGs emissions, methods that can be used to ensure there is increase in

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the energy use efficiency among others. The significance of this project is to ensure that there is
reduction in the spread of water borne diseases caused by contaminated water by greenhouse
gases. The scope of this project mainly looks at the water resources and greenhouse gases
production and their respective effects on the biodiversity.
Background
Since, 1990, there has been increase in the emission of the greenhouse gas. United
State experienced an increase of the greenhouse gas by 2 percent in the year 1990.
Greenhouse gas emission always rises and fall year in year out as a result of changes in the
economy, fuel price among other factors. GHGs occur naturally; however, there emission of
these gases increases as a result of the increases in the human activities. Concentration of
human GHGs gases increases in the atmosphere are artificially increased by activities being
undertaken by the human activities (Shailesh, 2013). Fresh water is essential for human
survival, not only for drinking but also for various activities such as washing, farming among
others.
Huang & Chen (2017) indicated that water supply is expected to increasingly become
scarce in the near future due to the increase contamination by the GHGs. Understanding the
problem of water scarcity start by taking into consideration how it is distributed within the
planet. Study indicates that 98 percent of the available water is salty. Therefore, this only
leaves 2 percent of the fresh water for human consumption and other uses. However, of this 2
percent almost 70percent is in the form of ice and snow, 30 percent being the ground water
leaving only 0.5 percent as surface water (rivers as well as lakes). Additionally, only 0.5
percent is available in the atmosphere. According to the research, greenhouse gases causes’

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global warming leading to the melting of the polar ice thereby turning the fresh water into the
sea water, even though it has small impacts on water supply (Heller et al, 2018). Research by
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicate that greenhouse gases such as CH4,
N2O among others that dissolved in water have negative impacts on the health of the human
society as well as the environment when consumed. The atmospheric lifetime of the
greenhouse gases produce by various industries vary with CO2 ranging from 50-200 years,
CH4 is lasting about 12 years and N2O lasting for approximately 114 years. The heat
trapping capability by the CH4 and N2O is very high (Huang & Chen, 2017). Therefore, this
causes increases in the cases of skin diseases such as cancer of the skin. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), reveal that these GHGs have capability of staying in the
atmosphere for many years. Consequently, this can pose a great impact on the health of the
present as well as the feature generation. Thus, there is a gent need to ensure that there is
production of the clean energy at affordable prices to ensure that there protection of the
environment and human society at large to reduce deaths and extinction of organism (Zhou,
2014).
Problem Statement
Greenhouse gases have got severe environmental impacts on the environment due to
climate change associated with it. Rise in temperature due to increase in the GHGs in the
atmosphere often results to various changes on the planet earth. It can result to drought
leading to lack of water, intense rain which is acidic as well as severe heat waves.
Additionally, there can be melting of the ice and glacier leading to the rice of ocean levels
causing tsunami. All this have got negative impacts to both human society as well as
environment. GHGs gases do not only have harmful effects on human health but also on the