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.
The reading and the lecture are about the inland lake called The Salton Sea, in which the lake's salt level has been raising, threatening local fish and bird populations. The author of the reading believes there are three solutions for this problem. The lecturer challenges that statements made by the author. she is of the opinion that none of the solutions are realistic or practical.
First of all, the author suggests that directly filtering the lake water in a desalination place. it is mentioned that pumping the lake water into the place and heating the water while the salts and other solid materials would be remain behind. Consequently, cooling evaporated water to condense it back to the lake. The argument is refuted by the lecturer. she says even though it is a possible method, it would make a health risk for people. Furthermore, she argues that there would be other toxic chemicals besides salt in the remaining solid materials, and they would cause breathing problem to people breathing the air mixed with the fine toxic chemicals from the leftover.
Secondly, the author posits that bring water from ocean to the lake for diluting the salt level. The article notes the Pacific ocean is 20 percent less saltier than the lake, so it is possible bring ocean water to decrease the lake's salt concentration. The lecturer, however, cast doubts on this by mentioning that the local government don't have enough money for such long pipelines to bring ocean water. she elaborates on this by mentioning that the ocean is at least 100 kilometers away, and pipelines for this is very expansive.
Finally, it is stated in the reading that building walls and dividing the lake into several pieces would help reducing the lake's salt. The author establishes that letting the smaller sections to be filled with salty water while the main sections to be directed for having less salty water so that the local populations of animals would be preserved. The lecturer, on the other, opposes that it will unlikely work in long run. she puts forth the idea that there are many geological activities around the lake such as earthquake, and if earthquake occurs in future, the walls would collapse.
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...as earthquake, and if earthquake occurs in future, the walls would collapse.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, at least, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1826.0 1373.03311258 133% => OK
No of words: 370.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93513513514 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50084134857 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516216216216 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 564.3 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6711202993 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.444444444 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5555555556 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94444444444 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 4.19205298013 262% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317423427782 0.272083759551 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100204254438 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0942755432383 0.0662205650399 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193975323207 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00341894300027 0.0443174109184 8% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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