Science News. (2019, August 5). Decades of dumping acid suggest acid rain may make trees thirstier. From https://www.sciencenews.org/article/decades-dumping-acid-suggest-acid- rain-may-make-trees-thirstier
Because of the amount of acid rain being produced, trees are becoming more dehydrated/ thirsty causing them to absorb more water than usual. This can lead to other living creatures, including us, not having enough water resources. An experiment was conducted with mock acid water and they noticed that the trees would absorb much more water than those that didn’t have acid water on them. About extra 13.6 million liters of water is used to satisfy the trees’ thirst, each year. The acid in acid water can dissolve minerals in the soil and consume all the calcium, and without calcium these plants can’t control the water loss. Soils take a while to recuperate the lost calcium.
In the future if we were to get more acid rain it would start to become a very serious problem to our economy and our environment. Our resources of water can decrease little by little and then by the time you know it, we will be looking for one of the most important things, we all need to live, in every little corner. I was thinking to myself if maybe there would be a way to get rid of the acid rain but I doubt you can completely vanish it. So more on the realistic side, there should be a way to water down the acid in acid rain, but then again we would be using even more water than we should be, because of the acid water down.
The fact that acid rain forces trees to increase the amount of water that they intake in order to satisfy their needs is pretty frightening because it not only effects the trees but also our water supply, I was not aware of that. The solution to this problem seems very tricky which you mentioned because watering down acid rain would cause an increase in our water use. In order to try to prevent acid rain do you think that is important to focus more of the rain itself or the air pollution first?