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michaellopez:

What is the significance of human impact on waterways and how are humans working to reduce that impact?

umm:

Do you know what a waterway is?

michaellopez:

an example is like a river or a canal

umm:

Yes, normally like bodies of water that are wide and deep enough for passage by freight-carrying vessels.

michaellopez:

can u just pls help me answer the question

umm:

I cannot you give you a direct answer, I'm just seeing if you understand what the question may be asking.

michaellopez:

yah but i dont know the impact

umm:

Give this a read, might help. Also, as an encouragement, please refrain from plagiarizing by copying and pasting this sentence into what you have to fill out. One problem encountered in waterway systems is the maintenance of enough water in the channel to float vessels. Engineers solve this problem in several ways. Some rivers are constantly dredged to keep a sufficiently deep path open at all times. The depth of other rivers is adjusted in certain sections by dams. When water in one section is low, a dam farther on closes its gates so that water will build up behind it and raise the water in the low section. Source - https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/waterway/277671

mw104969:

so do you know what a human impact might be?

michaellopez:

ok thank you

26jnunez:

There are a lot of significance of human impact on waterways and on how are humans working to reduce that impact. People are studying really hard on how to prevent some thing or some bad thing from happening, and this is one example to that. Being informed on one thing means a lot to the latter part.

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