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 More than 70 percent of water withdrawn from nature goes to agriculture, so we’re helping farmers access new technologies and practices that use less water while continuing to produce the food we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.
<h2>Answer:</h2>
Option C is correct.
C. 5 kilocalories
<h2>Explanation:</h2>
Only a little amount of energy as 10% is transferred to the next trophic level. This is called 10% rule. So, in this case as the energy available at the secondary trophic level is 50 kilocalories and 10% of it is transferred into the tertiary level so it would be 5 kilocalories.
The correct answer is it decreases genetic diversity only by reducing population size.
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The great explanation for this is a bottleneck effect, which is an extreme example of genetic drift. The bottleneck effect occurs when the size of a population is reduced due to a catastrophe. When it happens, only a small, random number of individuals survive the event and pass through the bottleneck. Thus, the genetic composition of the random survivors is now the genetic composition of the entire population which means that the genetic diversity is reduced.</span>
Answer:
The correct answer would be the harmless bacteria had been transformed.
Griffith used two different strains of the bacteria <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae - </em>type-III-S or smooth strain and type II-R or rough strain.
Smooth strain had protective covering around itself (protect itself from hosts's immune system) and was able to kill the mice.
Rough strain did not have any protective covering around itself and thus could be easily removed by the immune system Hence, it was not able to kill the mice.
In addition, heat killed smooth strain was also not able to kill the mice. However, when remains of it was added with rough strain then the blend was able to kill the mice.
Lastly, he was able to isolate living bacteria of both the strains.
He concluded that non-lethal type II-R strain was transformed into lethal type II-S strain by "transforming principle" (which we know today as DNA) that was supposed to be the part of dead III-S strain bacteria.
The answer is 114 compressions per minute. Chest compression is a technique used during cardiopulmonary resuscitation or for the treatment of choking.The latest CPR procedure does not allow or make use of mouth to mouth breathing as part of the protocol for an 8 year old and adults. The emphasis now being on continuously doing he chest compressions
