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 both about discussing solutions to reduce the level of salt in The Salton Sea in California. The author of the reading believes that there are several solutions that can be done to reduce the salt. However, the professor significantly shows her disagreement towards those solutions.
To begin with, the author suggests the direct removal of the salt from the lake by a special desalination facilities. On the other hand, the professor thinks that this idea presents many problems. If we use these facilities and after water evaporates, it leaves behind the salt and other type of chemicals such as: selenium. This chemical causes health issues if it is inhaled.
Secondly, the writer gives another solution which is diluting the salt level in the lake by using oceans water. This specific argument is challenged by the professor. She claims that this suggestion requires constructing pipelines and canals linking the lake to the Pacific Ocean which is 100km away, this would need an expensive resources that the government lacks.
Finally, the author posits that we can divide the lake into several sections by building walls. This way salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced. In contrast, the lecturers rebuts this by mentioning that although this might work for sometimes but there are many geological activity in that area that would end up destroying the walls resulting in mixing of the water.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 331, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'resource'?
Suggestion: resource
...00km away, this would need an expensive resources that the government lacks. Finally...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1268.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17551020408 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6127231705 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595918367347 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.8012888121 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5714285714 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35714285714 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181395086567 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0596244095095 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515494574922 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105162188184 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.01378072413 0.0443174109184 31% => 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: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.