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.
Both the reading and the lecture discuss the possibility of decreasing of salt from the Salton Sea. The author believes that there are three ways by which it will be possible to remove salt from the lake. On the other hand, the professor rejects those ways by saying that the solutions provided by the article are not realistic and practical.
Firstly, the article asserts that by desalination it will be practical to reduce the sals levels. The lecturer, on the contrary, casts doubt on this method by saying that this way causes serious problems. He says that in desalination water should be evaporated. Consequently, some chemicals leave behind that are risky for health because these chemicals include selenium which is harmful to people. Moreover, if a wind blows and spreads this chemical to the city, it will harm people because it is so dangerous for people who will breathe those poisonous chemicals.
Secondly, the reading points out that by transferring the water of the Pacific Ocean into this lake, the salt level will be decreased. The speaker, nonetheless, rejects the possibility of this method. He explains that this method needs to construct a pipeline and channel which is very expensive. Moreover, the government has not enough source to pay this amount of money. In addition, there is 1000 kilometer from the Pacific Ocean to the lake that undoubtedly will increase building pipeline and channel over such distance.
Finally, the article contends that by constructing walls over the lake and dividing it into several sections, it will be possible to reduce salinity. The professor, on the contrary, refutes this method by saying that it will not effective for a long time. To support his reason he says that the region on which the lake is located in a frequently geological active region. In other words, there are a quite a few strong earthquakes which are happening in that region. Therefore, this strong earthquake will destroy and separate the walls and the water in small sections will be mixed with large sections.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Line 5, column 401, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'kilometer' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'kilometers'.
Suggestion: kilometers
...nt of money. In addition, there is 1000 kilometer from the Pacific Ocean to the lake that...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, first, firstly, if, moreover, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, in addition, in other words, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1712.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 340.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03529411765 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6312600426 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502941176471 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.9 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.84217746 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.1111111111 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8888888889 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.147162296632 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0499971955531 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0511173063147 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0967767503394 0.162205337803 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0187169424016 0.0443174109184 42% => 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: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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