Conditions affecting the hearing bones: otosclerosis. Otosclerosis is the most common cause of hearing loss in young people. It's a condition of abnormal bone growth affecting the stapes, the third of the three little bones in the middle ear.
Hydroelectric dams use water to produce electricity. Natural water resources include lakes, rivers, streams, ice pack, groundwater, precipitation and oceans. As global climate change begins to affect the distribution of water resources in the United States, water use in all sectors is coming under increasing scrutiny.
In order to enrich their lives, people have used natural resources and in the process have brought about many changes in the natural environment. Human settlements, roads, farmlands, dams and many other things have all developed through this.