infographic about the positives and negatives of AGRICULTURE in the watershed
infographic
One of the product I will add to the magazine during the project is an infographic depicting some positives and negatives of the job you have in your watershed group. My job was is a Farmer, so my infographic will have the positives and negatives I find most influential after conducting my research. After a couple days of persistent research I came up with a list of 15 positives and 15 negatives.
15 Positive and 15 Negative effects of Farming on a Watershed
Positive:
Negative:
Of these I chose the ones I found most influential and began to work on my infographic. One of the hardest things to accomplish is creating art on the computer through Adobe Illustrator. We cannot use any images unless we they are royalty-free or created ourselves, so I have been tracing and recreating all the images I want to use. After fixing multiple design Issues I finally began creating the illustrations. Here is what I have so far.
15 Positive and 15 Negative effects of Farming on a Watershed
Positive:
- Planting cover crops
- Restoring rivers, streams and valuable insect, animal and bird habitats
- Sustained crop yields
- Stores Carbon
- Minimize soil erosion when effective land cover occurs
- Provide ground cover
- Reduce insect pests and diseases
- Absorbs excess fertilizer
- Reduces nutrient leaching after main crop is harvested
- Enrich soil with organic matter
- Vegetation grown along river banks reduce the amount of pollutants going into the water
- Reduce vulnerability to flooding
- Reduces effects of climate change
- Aquafarming reduces sediments and erosion
- Some of the irrigation used prevents phosphorus to enter the water streams and lakes of the watershed.
Negative:
- Soil erosion
- Fertilizer Pollution
- Excess Irrigation
- Change of water distribution
- Loose soil
- Depletion of aquifers
- Under Irrigation creates toxic salts in the environment that can go into the water
- Pesticide Drift
- Development of intersex conditions in fish
- Impaired reproduction of fish eating animals
- Phosphorus leakage
- Animals destroy plants and the landscape
- Ocean pollution in Aquafarming
- Urine and feces leakage
- Water waste
- Cleaning
- Drinking
- Cooling
Of these I chose the ones I found most influential and began to work on my infographic. One of the hardest things to accomplish is creating art on the computer through Adobe Illustrator. We cannot use any images unless we they are royalty-free or created ourselves, so I have been tracing and recreating all the images I want to use. After fixing multiple design Issues I finally began creating the illustrations. Here is what I have so far.
After I had this finished I went through fixing any mistakes, adding royalty-free images and creating my part to a group inforgraphic that is incorporated into my groups final watershed magazine.
After I finished my infographic I was able, with the help form a partner, to put together and format the rest of my groups infographics into one for our magazine using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.