Hello, my name is Bennett Houston, and I will be presenting the data portion of our Making a Difference presentation. When we first set out to do our project, we had to collect data. We collected data from the internet, took interviews, and conducted a survey. For this portion, I will be focusing on the information we got from the survey. The first question we asked was:. Name any companies or organizations that you think could be contributing to river pollution. For these questions we received three general answers: Weyerhaeuser, PCS, and farms. I would say our group agreed on these terms because we have grown up around these things in eastern NC. and believed them to be pollution sources. Next, we asked: Do you believe that pollution of the environment, as a whole, has gotten better or worse in your lifetime? For these answers, we assumed it would be mostly yes, since we have heard a lot about how pollution is a problem throught our lives, but the answers were not exactly what we thought. Instead of a lopsided poll, only 2/3rds believed it had gotten worse. This surprised us, as our opinions were set on that it had gotten worse. Our final question was: Name some problems that may lead to air pollution around the world. For this, we figured the usual stuff like car exhaust, and factories . Our survey results agreed with us, with our answers being almost all car exhaust and factories. The data collected helped us out greatly on our project. We learned opinions from different groups of people, and made our results more diverse.We got to see both sides of the story and learn a bit about our area and the people that inhabit it. Thank you for listening, our next presenter is Aaron Davis, who will share information about the interviews.