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“Specific Page Title or Article Title” Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?”	Water Use by Farmers Will Rise 19% by 2050, UN Says
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	Tara Patel
Title of the Entire Website (not www. ) Ex: CBC News	Bloomberg News
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	Bloomberg News
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	03/12/2012
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	03/13/2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: < http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-11/farmers-to-battle-water-scarcity-as-food-demand-grows-un-says

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

“In many countries water availability for agriculture is already limited and uncertain, and is set to worsen,” according to the fourth United Nations World Water Development Report published was quoted.

“The scale of the problem could worsen,” Olcay Unver, coordinator of the report was quoted.

“Acquiring rights to use land for growing in other countries implies the right to use their water,” Unver was quoted.

“Countries that can afford better technology can put additional water stress where it already exists.” Olcay Unver was quoted.

“We need to give water a price,” Xavier Leflaive, the report’s author was quoted saying.

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
In France a meeting was held about the issue of water and its scarcity. The reasons stated that farming is growing as the population increases and with it the increased use of water. Some radical solutions such as raising the price of water were made. That is what the article is about. Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
Tara Patel is the author and is a contributor to bloomberg new and has served as a reporter.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
the site just seems informative about the issue of water. Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
I detect no bias in the article.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The author references important figures from the UN which makes her argument stronger. Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
I will use this source as evidence to my senior project and on how urbanization and population growth contribute to depleted resources, wildlife extinction, and environmental pollution. 

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“Specific Page Title or Article Title”  Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?”	Peak Water: The Rise and Fall of Cheap, Clean H2O
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	Peter S. Green
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  Ex: CBC News	Bloomberg.com
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	Bloomberg
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	2/6/12
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	2/20/12
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: < http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-06/peak-water-the-rise-and-fall-of-cheap-clean-h2o.html

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental research organization in San Francisco says "There are limits to how much water we can get and use, and how we use it and where we use it,"

Peter Gleick says"People think of water as a renewable resource, and mostly it is. But there are very important nonrenewable stocks of water that society depends on."

Su Gao, water analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance says “Water will be China’s “next growth dilemma,”.

A team of climatologists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Geological Survey, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say “Drought will become more extreme call[ing] into question whether we can sustain the water resources that we have come to depend upon in the 20th century.”.

Demand for water used in the extraction process, called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, will jump 10-fold by 2020, and double again by 2030, said Robert Mace, a deputy executive administrator of the Texas Water Development Board. That may be more water than the region’s depleted aquifers and the Rio Grande can supply.

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
Credibility of Source:

 The article states that we are running out of usable water in places that it is needed. Places like Las Vegas, china, and Egypt are said to be having a water problem due to low snow and rain fall, and the climate change. A result of this is that either water will become more expensive in the places where it is scares or strict regulations or new technology will help us conserve our clean water. 
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?

The author is a contributor to Bloomberg.com. He writes articles.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?

 The author is trying to get us aware of a current problem but seems to have no personal gain.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
I detect no bias in the argument.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?

The author cites scientists and researchers which makes his argument stronger.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?

I will use this source as evidence that urbanization, growing population, and unclean industrialization are taking their toll on the environment. 

senior project interview

Urbanization and Industrialization

1. What does urbanization and Industrialization mean to you?
I believe it means people moving into places and building which will lead to loss of reasources.

2. How are you connected to urbanization and industrialization?
i am a very outdoors kind of person and have a bachelors degree in Geology and know about the environment and how it is affected.

3. Do you have a first hand experience with urbanization and industrialization?
I have been to Oregon where they stripped down trees to mine and to Boron california where the mineral Boron is mined. In Ventura county I have obsereved that hills are brought down for sand and gravel. natural processes are stopped which tampers with the environment. I have also witnessed wildfires.

4. how long have you been connected with/ affected by urbanization and industrialization?
ten years since I started an in interest in Geology.

5. Do you think this is a serious problem or something that can be put off?
I believe it is serious because we will run out of space and resources, also disease and famine.

6. What are your thoughts on how to improve this problem?
I believe that education, more guidelines and restrictions that can'not be overdeveloped will aid with this issue.

7. What are your thoughts on the opposing views?
I believe that It should be controlled but also on the other hand we enjoy the benefits so when do you draw the line?  before we've crossed it or after?

8. What are some effects that not many are aware about?
water pollution and shortages of water. the way we damage our oceans because of the loss of the ozone layer and the way the carbon in the atmosphere destroys reefs and communites of life is another thing that not many are aware about.

9. has anyone been doing anything to help with the problem of urbanization and industrialization?
heal the bay tries to clean up beaches and educational programs try to bring awearness. my sister was involved in a program where she counted and estimated the number of a species of fish and took samples of the water to ensure its survival.

10. Why would many choose to ignor this issue?
they would choose to ignor this issue because they do not see the relevance to them and do not take the time to think of the long term effects.

11.can you name any places that you feel are extremely affected from this issue?
trees that get chopped of near the equator. That is their life source and they do not know how important they are.

12. Who is contributing to the problem?
the United States because we want so many things. We are big consumers and other countries want to be like use so that will lead to more scarcity.

13. What are the short term effects and what are the long term effects.
 the short term effects can still be fixed but the long term effects are alot more serious and consist of habitat and species loss and also scarcity of land.