Water Quality Essay

39601Write a 750-1,000-word essay about water quality in your community that addresses the following points:

Obtain a water quality report from your local municipality within the last two years and discuss what you found in the report?
Identify a water quality issue happening in your community and where the pollution comes from? This includes point sources (for example, water discharge from a factory; contamination from a Superfund site), Non-point sources (for example, agricultural runoff), and Natural sources.
Describe how the pollution source is impacting the environment and human health in your community, and provide two examples of each.
Identify three management practices to minimize water pollution.
Remember to support your data and information with appropriate citations. A minimum of five peer-reviewed references must be included.

RURIC:
Essay discusses items found in the water quality report; content is accurate, detailed, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.
Essay identifies a water quality issue in regards to pollution source; content is accurate, detailed, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.
Essay describes how pollution source is impacting the environment and human health; content is accurate, provides two examples of each, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.
Essay identifies three management practices to minimize water pollution; content is accurate, detailed, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.
Sources are academic, comprehensive, current, and/or relevant. Sources expertly support, extend, and inform ideas but do not substitute for the writer’s own idea development. Sources are well synthesized to support major points.
Thesis and/or main claim are comprehensive; contained within the thesis is the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner.
Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
All format elements are correct.
In-text citations and a reference page are complete. The documentation of cited sources is free of error.