Acid Rain Is A Serious Problem With Disastrous Effects. Each Day This Problem In

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Term Paper Title	Acid Rain Is A Serious Problem With Disastrous Effects. Each Day This Problem In
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     Acid rain is a serious problem with disastrous effects.  Each day this problem increases and many people believe that this issue is too small to bother with right now.  This issue should be met head on and resolved before it is too late.  In the following paragraphs I will be discussing the impact acid rain has on the wildlife and how our atmosphere is being destroyed by acid rain.
CAUSES
     Acid rain is a cancer eating into the face of eastern Canada and the north eastern United States.  In Canada, the main sulfuric acid sources are non-ferrous smelters and power plants.  On both sides of the Canada-United States border, cars and trucks are the main sources for nitric acid (about 40% of the total), while power generating plants, industrial, commercial, and residential fuel combustion together contribute most of the rest. In the air, the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides can be transformed into sulfuric acid and nitric acid, and the air current can send them thousands of miles from the source.  When the acids fall to the earth in any form it will have large impact on the growth or the preservation of certain wildlife.
NO DEFENSE
     Areas like Ontario, Canada, mainly southern regions that are near the Great Lakes, have substances such as limestone or other known antacids that can neutralize acids entering the body of water thereby protecting it.  However, large areas of Ontario that are near the Pre-Cambrian Shield, with quartzite or granite based geology and little top soil, do  not posses enough buffering capacity to neutralize even small amounts of acid falling on the soil and the lakes.  Therefore over time, the basic environment shifts from an alkaline to a acidic one.  This is why many lakes in the Muskoka, Haliburton, Algonquin, Parry Sound and Manitoulin districts could lose their fisheries if sulfur emissions are not reduced substantially.
ACIDITY
     The mean average of pH rainfall in Ontario's Muskoka-Haliburton lake country ranges between 3.95 and 4.38 about 40 times more acidic than normal rainfall, while storms in Pennsylvania have rainfall pH at 2.8 it almost has the same rating for vinegar.
Already 140 Ontario lakes are completely dead or dying.  An additional 48,000 are sensitive and vulnerable to acid rain due to the surrounding concentrated acidic soils.
ACID RAIN IS A RESULT OF OTHER PROBLEMS
     Canada does not have as many people, power plants or automobiles as the United States, and yet acid rain in Canada has become so severe that C...

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