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Essay Instructions: 3. Shortage of Research and Literature
Write a one-page response addressing why you think there is such a dearth of material on the water supply system infrastructure as it relates to health care delivery systems. Consider the following possibilities, but also include at least one idea of your own that does not appear on this list:
o The mixture of public/private ownership
o Traditional notion of what constitutes the health care delivery system
o Pace of change with respect to water supply system technology/management/operations
o (Under)funding
Justify your response with at least two citations documented in APA format

Essay Instructions: A plan to assist a developing country with its food and water supply. Choose a developing country, such as Cambodia, Haiti, Maldives or Rwanda. The plan should list and weigh the pros and cons of at least 3 alternative methods for maximizing food production, and decide on the one you think would be most successful, and explain your reasons for choosing it. Identify at least 2 ways this country is misusing its water supply, and propose ways for its people to better use the water available to them. Organize the plan to be submitted to the current government of the developing country.

Essay Instructions: Part 1. Identification of terms and processes: answer any 8 in a paragraphs

1. water surplus / water deficit
2. cloud-seeding
3. giardiasis/cryptosporidium
4. doctrine of prior appropriations
5. scour and fill / levees
6. dissolved load/ suspended load / bed load
7. chlorination / trihalomethanes (THMs)
8. anadromous fish / catadromous fish
9. Three Gorges Dam / Tucurui Dam / Balbina Dam
10. Stram Orders (illustrate first, second, and third orders)
11. give examples of point versus non point discharges


Part II Short Essay – answer either one

1. What are the basic requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act? Which water supplies are covered by the act, and which are not? What are MCLs, primary standards, and secondary standards? What must be done when a water supply is out of compliance with the standards?
2. Although various technologies for desalinization have been developed over the years, the actual implementation of these technologies has been plagued by difficulties of various sorts. Briefly summarize some of the problems, as described by Gleick which regard to plants in Santa Barbara , Ca and Tampa Bay, FL

Part III Essay

1. Summarize five major benefits that may occur from building dams on rivers, describing each of the benefits briefly. Then summarize five major losses and damages that may occur from building dams on rivers, describing each of the losses briefly.

Essay Instructions: 1) In this stage of the Proposal, you will explore how your work fits existing published work, by reviewing literature on your research topic. While gathering sources for your review, keep in mind that your final literature review for the dissertation should represent a thorough understanding of what has already been written about the subject. In addition, consider how your research question derives from the knowledge you have gained from the resources in your review.

Choose the next seven (7) articles (which will be added to the three previous ones) from online library resources which are relevant to the subject of your dissertation, and complete a review of these articles. Discuss the key arguments and findings, describing how you think they apply to your topic and specific research questions, plus the potential implications of these findings for your research. Remember that you must paraphrase the articles in your own words (appropriately referenced, of course) and synthesize their potential contribution to your research; they should not be presented as a 'list' of articles.
The seven articles are attached as resource files.

The conclusion of the literature review for the last three articles is as follows:
All three of these articles highlight the need to view sustainable water delivery as a political problem. Although environmental issues may need to be studied to determine the best way to provide safe and regular clean water to residents, without political will and logistical planning, it will mean little. Also, a program cannot be excessively theoretical and conceptual in nature to ?work.?

2) My Research Topic is: Operation and Data Management at the Water-Authority: will there be a sustainable water supply for the next century. A case study of Water Infrastructure Management in the Caribbean. Keeping in mind that the methodology of the research will be qualitative.

a) What would be the goals of this research?
b) What would be the research questions/ hypothesis? (at least 4).

8 pages excluding headers and references