Most people in the world get our water from rivers and lakes, including the vast majority of the world’s poorest people.
But half of the world’s 500 most important rivers – water sources for hundreds of millions of people – are being seriously depleted or polluted.* Approximately 40 percent of the rivers in the U.S. are too polluted for fishing and swimming.**
Water shortages will likely be a fact of life for most people on the planet within the next ten years.*** We can’t afford to pollute and destroy our drinking water sources. But that’s exactly what we’re doing – often without knowing it.
Forests, grasslands and wetlands are nature’s water filters. They help keep erosion and pollution from flowing into our waters and they slow rainwater down, sending more water into underground supplies. But every year we lose 32 million acres of forest – that's a lot of water filters, gone, every year.
We are facing dirtier, unsafe water and more risk of water shortages and scarcity. This crisis is real, it’s happening now and it’s getting worse fast.
The Nature Conservancy partners with people communities in all 50 states and 30 countries to protect water sources. We work on the ground to:
<span><span>Prevent deforestation and destruction of grasslands – nature’s water filters</span><span>Restore forests and grasslands that have already been lost or damaged and sending erosion into our waters</span><span>Equip farmers with practical ways to keep harmful run-off out of our waters</span><span>Restore floodplains that act as sponges and send water down into groundwater supplies and filter pollution out of rivers</span><span>Create new science that helps pinpoint the greatest threats to our waters and the most effective ways to combat them</span></span>
But we understand that nature won’t solve everything, so we’re finding new ways to reduce water use. More than 70 percent of water withdrawn from nature goes to agriculture, so we’re helping farmers access new technologies and practices that use less water while continuing to produce the food we need.
Function of leucocytes or simply - White Blood Corpuscles
Answer:
definition with benefit is given below of
1st. gravitropism
2nd. phototropism
3rd. thigmotropism
4th. photoperiod
Explanation:
1st is gravitropism
gravitropism is process in which plant grow in the direction that gravity act
It is also called geotropism
and
Gravitropism is important for plants because it directs the roots to grow in the downward direction that is important for obtaining nutrients
2nd is phototropism
phototropism is the process in which plant growth directed by the light
and
we know plants need light to carry out photosynthesis
so Phototropism direct the growth of the stem and branch toward sunlight
3rd is thigmotropism
thigmotropism is the directional change in growth of plant in response to a touch stimulus
and
thigmotropism is especially important for climbing plant that is use support to climb up
4th is photoperiod
photoperiod is the physiological change in organism in the response to length of the day and night
and
it play important role to determining the physiological developmental process in the plant such as budding and tuberization
<span>By definition, the two determinants of mean arterial pressure are cardiac output and total peripheral resistance. It has been shown that Lasix decreases cardiac output and total peripheral resistance. Diuretics increase urine production, so it will lower mean arterial pressure.</span>
A- tectonic plate motion caused the Atlantic Ocean basin to increase in size
