Water
From Wiki Essays
Water plays an undeniably essential role in just about every facet of life, and is the central evidence being sought by scientists in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Some aspects of water that are interesting (and that will make great section headers) include:
- geological significance (for the win!)
- erosion
- shaping the earth
- continental divides
- watersheds
- drinking (for refreshment)
- % of freshwater that is actually drinkable
- pollution (for fuck's sake, forsooth)
- industry
- spills
- toxins
- strip mining
- great Pacific trash float
- trade
- waterways and ports (for profit)
- ancient
- Mediterranean Sea
- The Rise of Venice
- Amsterdam and Dutch East Indies
- New York
- Age of Exploration
- NW Passage
- Mississippi
- Erie Canal
- Panama Canal
- Suez Canal
- Vietnam War - oil route through SE Asia seas
- waterways and ports (for profit)
- man-made water environments (for fun)
- pools
- spas
- dammed up lakes
- when water attacks
- floods
- mold
- environment (ay fold into another topic)
- Amazon
- management
- LCRA
- EPA
- western water rights
- well-digging as a humanitarian effort
- interfaces
- with land - importance of wetlands
- tides and motion
- importance of the moon
- defining and searching out new life
- NASA
- within our solar system
- moon
- outside our solar system
