Arizona

Now in the world there are some different opinions about what is more important between economy and environment, and what we have to support first. In addition, people who are thinking about the future and the next generation agree with protecting the environment. One important part of the environment is groundwater. In addition, there is something that affects the groundwater, which is pollution. However, we have two kinds of pollution: first, natural pollution such as volcanoes, and this is a part nobody can do anything with; the second is pollution by human activity, and that we should find some solutions for to make our lives better. In addition, Arizona is an example of a place that has pollution from human activity. In Arizona, there is fast development and that leads to affecting the groundwater, because with a number of people should happen some bad behavior. So we have to support that idea to control the development in Arizona. However, some government laws in Arizona help to move people and that is not good for the state. In this article "Nevada Company wants to pump Arizona water," the author says, "Arizona law says water can be taken out of the state" (2006, para. 16). On the other hand, some companies want from buy the water to use the groundwater to make more money. In this article "Nevada Company wants to pump Arizona water" the author explains that, "a Nevada Company wants to reach across the border into northwestern Arizona to pump groundwater and pipe it back to growing Mesquite" (2006, para. 1). Finally, from that statement we can understand that there is fast development in Arizona and the amount of groundwater is going down. So we should support that idea of controlling fast development, because crowding people in one place is not good for people, animals or plants.

The definition of groundwater is the amount of water below the earth. In addition, the effects of reducing the groundwater it will be clear during the time. In addition, some people cannot have their right; because of that, governments should try to make a good law to give the people their right. According to K. Watkins (2006, para. 11), "Growing scarcity means more competition. And as William Mulholland taught us all those years ago, competition without good governance can turn ugly especially for those without power.” In addition, there is research for population growth in the future, which tells us about a big problem in the future. In this article "Water: Arizona struggles to meet growing demand" (2006, para. 2) the author tell us that "the west's population is expected to grow by 40 million people by 2030, and almost one-quarter of that growing will be in Arizona". That means 10 million people will come and use the groundwater in Arizona. Moreover, the importance of controlling the development is not to protect the people only; it is also to protect the water. In the article "Water: Arizona struggles to meet growing demand," the author quoted Sandy Bahr as saying "we need to protect people, but also need to protect flowing rivers and streams. And they're not just important for us right now, but also for future generations" (2006, para. 5). On the other hand, some countries are going to make laws to protect the groundwater, and any thing that affects it like the fast development in Arizona.

First, the government of the United States has to control the extraordinary development in Arizona because that is not good for people. However, there is unbelievable development in Arizona. Davenport (2007, para. 9) says, "Arizona is the nation's fastest state growing state." In fact, the number of people in one place will lead to bad health; we can learn that from some of the surveys about the differences in people’s health in small or big cities; people in small cities have better health than people in big cites. The reason is that in a big city, there are more cars, factories, and building smoke, but in small cities, the amount of all of those is less. Moreover, the crowding of people in one place leads to the pollution in Arizona; the water of the nation's now in an unhealthy phase. (Water pollution, 2006.) In addition, now in Arizona they have some problems with less water. If more people go to Arizona, that means less water and the problem will become bigger. For example, in the capital of Saudi Arabia we have some big problem with water, because more people have moved to live in Riyadh. Moreover, the presence of a large number of people in one place, especially with their cars and factories, would lead to an impact on the environment. Finally, people should not think about themselves only; they have to think about environment.

Next, we have to support controlling the development in Arizona, because there is a smaller number of animals in Arizona and they cannot live without any water. However, we have to control the use of water to keep their life. If a number of people move to this area, they need to use water, then the animals will not find any water and that would lead to killing animals. In addition, the number of animals will decrease during that time, because the nature of life requires hunting to live or indirect impact on food from erosion. For example, if there is a wolf and he lives when he eats deer, in this situation, when people hunt deer that will lead to the extinction of two types of animals, which are wolves and deer. So if people focus in one place, that will lead to losing the amount of animals and plants in that area. Finally, we have to support that idea to control moving people to Arizona, because we cannot live without animals and we have to protect them.

Third, the decrease in the amount of plants is one of the big reasons for not allowing people to move to Arizona, because plants are important to our life and in the desert area like Arizona there are fewer plants than in the other places. In addition, the amount of water in Arizona is not enough and the trees are dying. In the article "Parts of lush wash sanctuary are drying," the author quoted Lyman as saying "The water table has dropped, so the trees are dying" (n.d. para. 5). However, now in any big cities, like in Arizona, people should have industries and buildings, and need a wide area to build their houses, which leads to a decrease in the plants in that area and in a large amount of land. In addition, in Arizona when someone wants to build a house, he needs to uproot some plants to have places to build on. That will lead directly to damaging the amount of planted areas. Finally, a large number of factories in one place are not good for the environment, and people should distribute them to different regions, because if there are people in a particular place, there will be a large number of factories.

A small number of people are arguing that controlling development and not allowing moving people to Arizona is not good. In addition, they said people need to live in warm weather. That is not true. If we agree with every possible wish of people, maybe there will come a time, when people kill themselves to get to eat; because of that, government has to control that, and distribute people in many areas. In addition, if there are large numbers of people in one place, that will affect and damage the environment. Also, that will decrease the plants and animals. Finally, the problem of moving people and fast development can be limited by government, and people should try to get another way to have water in their places.

In conclusion, limiting and controlling the extraordinary development will help people, animals, and plants to have a good life in Arizona. In addition, sometimes people don't think about the future and the next generation; they only think about themselves and their lives. In addition, they do not think more about the environment. For these reasons, government should try teaching people and make many programs on the televition to teach the children and make some research to get the solution to decrease the moving of people, and to get the acceptend of people to stay in their lands or find new places for them to live in. Moreover, Arizona is a good place, but people, animals and plants need to have a chance to live with a good situation. Finally, people should have the responsibility themselves to help the governments to control the development in each place.


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Watkins, K. (2006, March 18). Save little water for tomorrow; a thirsty world. The International Herald Tribune. Retrieved May 31, 2007, from LexisNexis database.