St. Pete Water
Final Project - Environmental Communication May 19, 2021 St. Pete Water By: Chloe Carter This semester in my Environmental Communication class, my professor tasked my classmates and I to come up with a final project that would encompass an environmental problem of our choice. The world is unfortunately experiencing many environmental problems as the years go on and one subject that I am very passionate about is preserving the water quality of the oceans. Growing up in rural Indiana, there weren't many opportunities to connect with the ocean. Once I finally cam face to face with those wide, blue waves I dedicated myself to learning about the watery world around us and how we can best work as a community to protect it. I wanted to be able to gain media attention for the recent problems that had been noticed in early 2021 in Tampa Bay. For example, there was a wastewater incident in which these extra chemicals were being poured into the water and increasing Tampa Bay’s risk of Red Tid...