The reading suggests various solutions stop the water salinity of Salton Sea lake in California which poses major threaten for the lake. However, the narrator thinks that every suggestion made by the author is neither practical nor realistic.
First the reading suggests that removing salt from the lake`s water would be a great solution. By pumping the lake`s water into a in a special desalination facilities and heating it up, the water will evaporate leaving the salt and dissolved material behind. Then it can be returned to the lake as salt free water, after cooling it down . Even though, the professor admits that desalination would reduce the lake`s water salinity, she explains that this process will pose serious health risks. The evaporated water would not only leave dissolved materials and salts, but also chemicals like selenium that is really toxic for people who are going to breath it as it would be carried out by wind and mixed up with the air that population breath in . Therefore, this proposition is unrealistic as it has dangerous health consequences.
Another solution that mentioned in the reading is delivering ocean water through pipelines or canals, to dilute the salt in the lake. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this idea by explaining that bringing the ocean water to the lake is not a very practical solution. The local government may not have enough funding for constructing new pipelines and canals for such long distance- about 100 km . Thus, this solution also is not practical.
Finally, the passage illustrates that another possible solution is constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections, where the water salinity of the large section will stay under control and allowed to increase in the small sections . On contrary, the professor indicates that this solution is not durable, because of the geographical location of the lake, where it`s very common to intense geological activities to happen, like earthquakes, are very common. She explains that those walls will collapse the first time there is a major earthquake, and eventually, low saline water in the main section will mixed back in with the high salinity water of the small sections . Therefore building this wall is really a short term solution.
To sum up, the author proposed three ways of dealing with water salinity in Salton Sea lake and therefore restoring lake`s overall health. Unlikely, the narrator challenges each proposition by indicating it`s major drawbacks.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, thus, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 5.01324503311 359% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 1373.03311258 157% => OK
No of words: 404.0 270.72406181 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33910891089 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76580784322 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 145.348785872 152% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54702970297 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 658.8 419.366225166 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.647643294 49.2860985944 178% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.8125 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.25 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.75 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 18.0 4.19205298013 429% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.237496637793 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0931739549768 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719616308722 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145595997224 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454679878326 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 63.6247240618 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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