The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake's water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health.
One option is direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special desalination facilities. Water from the lake would be pumped into the facilities and heated. This would cause the water to evaporate into steam, while salt and other materials dissolved in the water would be left behind. The steam would then be cooled down and returned to the lake as salt-free water. Gradually, the high salt levels would be reduced and the lake’s overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution is to dilute the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. Since water in the Pacific Ocean is 20 percent less salty than water in the lake, bringing ocean water into the lake would decrease the lake’s salinity. The ocean water could be delivered through pipelines or canals.
Yet another solution would be to control the lake's salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections. In the smaller sections, salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced and controlled by, among other things, directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake.
Both the reading and the lecture discuss the methods for decreasing salinity level in a local salty lake in America. The author is of the opinion that there is some practical solutions to solve this issue and provides three reasons for support. On the other hand, the professor states that it would be great if this situation will be solved but the author’s solutions are unrealistic and unpractical by refuting each solution.
First the reading claims that they can transfer the lake’s water in to huge tankers and evaporate it so the salt will be separate from water. However, the lecturer says that this action presents serious problems for people and environment. For instance if stored water in facilities evaporated then the solid material in the water will remain. Moreover, some of them maybe toxic like Selenium components. If this solid material will be exposed in the air it will harm people through breathing.
Second, the author states that they can add ocean water to the lake since the ocean water is less salty. Conversely, the lecturer contends that bringing ocean water requires a lot pipelines and this equipment are really expensive and government will not able to afford them. Owing to the fact that the local government did not have enough financial resources to build the pipelines. In addition bringing this equipment to long distances is very expensive too.
Third, the article suggests that they can build the walls and divide the lake into the sections asserted by salinity level. On the contrary, the professor asserts that this solution is unlikely to work. Owing to the fact that sometimes earth activities such as earthquicks bring collapse in the mentioned walls and cracked them and water in haigh salinity will be resolved in the water in low salinity and fail the process.
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...d them and water in haigh salinity will be resolved in the water in low salinity...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, however, if, may, moreover, really, second, so, then, third, for instance, in addition, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1527.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05629139073 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53516343418 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539735099338 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.800103842 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.8 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1333333333 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 7.06452816374 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215926964597 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0720833185706 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0730554222216 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134244799896 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301881144827 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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