Historical Overview of Water Sustainability and Treatment

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper investigating a historical water contamination event. Examples include but are not limited to:

• Hurricane Katrina
• BP oil Spill
• Japanese Tsunami of 2011
• Exxon Valdez oil spill
• Walkerton, Ontario E. coli contamination

Research your chosen historical water contamination event.

Answer the following questions in your paper:

• What were the results of the contamination on the water supply? Use the stages of the hydrological cycle to describe your answer.
• What were the results of the contamination on the environment?
• What treatment process could be used to remove any impurities from the event?
• What lesson about water was learned from your research?
• What economic value does water have?

Include a minimum of two references from peer-reviewed sources.