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  During my first year as an Environmental Engineering student, I took a course called "Earth Engineering." It was mainly about soil mechanics, yet the first lesson discussed the natural resources left on this earth, and how humans use them everyday. The most surprising fact was the amount of freshwater on our planet, which is barely anything!! As the years go by, experts keep warning us about the arising water scarcity problem. We have already heard many horror stories like the Flint water crisis, and there are many more to come. To learn more about our current situation, I wrote about the present water issues and their unknown future. As the planet continues to warm and the world population endlessly grows, the need for water is increasing at a dangerous pace. Majority of the planet is water, however fresh water is the main source of drinking water for humans, and it only constitutes about 1/10,000th of one percent of the total water; of this minute amount, 68.7% is loc...

This is a report I wrote for my speech communications class in my first year at the University of Waterloo back in November 2019. It was meant to be a persuasive paper on why Ontario should invest in vertical farming, however in the end I believe it is more of a research paper. This was one of the longest and most detailed reports I have written, it required a lot of specific research as I needed the facts to be valid for Ontario. Since writing this paper, I have seen vertical farming being used in several countries, I do hope that it becomes more prominent in the future, as it has several benefits which you will read in this report. The Issues Caused by Agriculture in Ontario The current agricultural practices have a major negative impact on the environment as they involve harmful chemicals and cause soil degradation. (Wanza, 2018) Firstly, fertilizers and pesticides are widely used in the farming industry to increase the quality of the cultivation and its growth rate. The most common...