How people tackled an environmental problem

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For your course project, you will tell a story about how people tackled (or are tackling) an environmental problem. The specific problem and context you focus on for your story is your "case."

The case that you choose for your course project must involve how a specific community or groups of people within a community addressed (or are addressing) a situation related to the wicked problem of water pollution. It can't be a case covered in any of the learning materials assigned in this course. As you conduct research to identify your case, keep the following in mind:

Your case can involve "point" source pollution (where a specific source, such as a waste discharge pipe, can be identified) or "nonpoint" source pollution, which involves pollutants accumulating in and moving through runoff, groundwater, etc.
You must be able to identify and describe the perspectives of at least two IAPs involved in your case. (e.g., Caltrans and the National Wildlife Federation were two IAPs involved in building the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.)
You must use reliable sources (see the CRAAP test covered in COMM 100) to gather information about your case.

Include the following (NOTE that you should continue to use the numbers that connect each prompt to your response):

Three sources that you are using to learn more about your chosen case. These must be credible sources (that pass the CRAAP Links to an external site. test) that have no or minimal bias (see this week's Learning Materials for resources to help identify bias in news sources). Include references for each.

A paragraph description of the water pollution case you have chosen for your course project. Include the specific location of the problem, identify at least two IAPs involved, and describe at least two components of the impacted ecosystem and how they are connected.

For each IAP you identify in #4 above, describe what you currently know about their perspective related to the water pollution problem. As you did when analyzing the Morro Bay case in Part A, consider how each IAP sees the problem, what "good" solutions might look like for each, etc. (Your understanding of their perspectives might shift as a result of what you learn from your research now and in the coming week. That is okay. Make sure to always support your portrayal of IAPs' positions with in-text citations and complete references, and be wary of bias in the sources that you use. See this APA Formatting and Style GuideLinks to an external site. for information about how to properly cite sources.)

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