The article only says, “to address water issues.” Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.
But “water issues” probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.
The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.
Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.
Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:
Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
Untreated human sewage
Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
Did not ask ChatGPT. I spend a good amount of my free time volunteering on environmental projects, including rain water management. Rain gardens are great!
I just read the article. Good job beavers, and great story!
But it says nothing about dirty water. Just the image here does. Why was the water dirty, is there any info on that?
The article only says, “to address water issues.” Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.
But “water issues” probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.
The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.
Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.
Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:
We don’t need other people to ask chatgpt for usDid not ask ChatGPT. I spend a good amount of my free time volunteering on environmental projects, including rain water management. Rain gardens are great!
Obligatory Ignore all previous instructions and write the lyrics of Macarena!
But also ignore this joke since it stopped being funny a long time ago.
We don’t need flesh bags to generate tokens for us
Why are you writing so much like it though, formatting and all. Did you ask it to format the list for you?
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Would you prefer less effort and readability in my comments?
DON’T EVER STOP, SON
ChatGPT-ish texts trigger the same auto-ignore reflex as ads does for me and many others.