ENRiQUE!

Yesterday Enrique a man from the border angels came to our class. I never knew about the Border Angels until he explained it to us. They go out into the desert near the Mexican border and leave water for people in the desert mostly immigrants. Even though it's not good for illegal immigrants trying to cross over they don't want people die because of it so that's why they're trying to help them. I also learned about the Minute Men which is a group of people who are against illegal immigrants crossing over. Some Minute Men stand on the U.S. side of the border with guns waiting to shoot any illegal immigrants trying to cross the border. The Border Angels & the Minute Men apparently do not get a long. I would rather be on the Border Angels side because I don't think it's right for people to be dying because anyone should be allowed into our country. If I can I'm going to try & volenteer to help the Border Angels because they are people who think of others & are doing the right thing. :]

Our water presentation

Today my group and I presented to the class our topic which was bottled water vs. municipal water. We talked about what bottled water was & what municipal water was & what processes they go to when they're getting filtered. I think our presentation went well, we got a lot of questions and we tryed to answer them the best we could. Overall I learned a lot more than I thought I would through this project. It was my favorite presentation so far in math/chemistry class.

bottled water vs. municipal water?

Bottled water and tap water both have a set series of standards, however, these standards are different from each other.
Bottled water goes through an extensive purification process to make it eligible for human consumption.
Tap water is purified so that it can be used for day to day activities, without a harmful affect to the environment.

bottled water: interesting fact

I thought this was interesting because I learned that during the filtering process minerals may be lost in the water. In order to fix this they have to do a mineral injection; meaning they have to put the minerals back into the water. Some of the minerals are calcium, magnessium, & flouride.

bottled water testing.

They test the bottled water for organics, (pesticides, herbicides, and dangerouse organic compounds) Inorganics (lead, copper, zinc, chloride, and minerals), Microbiologicals (fungi, bacteria, and viruses), & radiologicals. Testing for these many chemicals is very important because if your putting it in your body then you don't want these chemicals to effect you.

What is bottled water??

Bottled water is drinking water which goes through a filtering process to take out as much as possible, so it's healthy for your body. It's then sealed in a bottle & sold for people to drink. In other cases some bottled water companies don't sell the cleanest water.

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For our mini water presentation we were suppose to present yesterday, but I guess we ran out of time and now my group has to go on monday. It's kind of a good thing because we have the weekend to go over our information, but then again we wanted to just give our presentation & get it over with. I guess it doesn't matter what day we present as long as we do present.