Mitigation Plan

Mitigation Plan

SCI/275

2012

Mitigation Plan

Take a moment and think of this sentence. Water! Water! Everywhere, but not a drop to drink; you turn on the water tap at your kitchen sink for a drink of cold water, and nothing but sludge fills the glass. The first impulse is to see what happened. So you check the lines their full of sludge! You call the local plumber to come and fix it he tells you there is no clean water anywhere, its city wide and I don't know what caused it he says. So you turn on the TV set and you're horrified at what you are watching it's not city wide but country wide. Even the president is acting strange and cryptic about what's going on. What an opening to a movie isn't it, only this could really happen!

The urban sprawl combined with waste management contributes to this problem. As we destroy our natural resources in order to build our shopping centers, industrial plants and gated condo's, we overlook one major thing. Rain water that is usually absorbed into the soil to become a natural water source is then deflected by the concrete and goes into a drainage sewer system (Berg & Hager, 2007, water pollution. para.1)

How could anyone think there is an eco-friendly plan to harvest our natural states and call it environmentally safe; the split second we cut down a tree we force the wild life to look for somewhere else to live; this was evident in my town when black bears were spotted in the city; one of those bears was shot and killed, only because he came back three times within one week, and made two 30 mile treks to get back to the city. We still don't have any idea why that one bear kept returning. That one bear originally came from Catskill Mountain Range which was over 80 miles away from where the local authorities and the department of conservation were left no choice but to shoot and kill him.

This sort of pollution from the urban sprawl is considered the worst by many conversationalists because of the sediment of the construction, motor vehicles to the industries poisons such as arsenic and dyes and mercury. Case in point as a child growing up in Johnstown NY we could always know what colors the leather tannery was running because of the color of the creek water.

Our nations farmers count on large amounts of water for their growing of crops, in order to feed our ever so over growing populations of hungry people. It is said irrigation accounts for 71% of our water consumption, Industries at 20%, then home use 9% (Berg & Hager, 2007).

As I briefly noted in my checkpoint in WK-6, In the National Geographic, there was an article about Mediterranean Sea; did you know that it is close to becoming empty of any kind of sea life. That's because of the overfishing and invasion of foreign species of fish and algal forests from the Red Sea said the author Braun (2012).

The EDF or the Environmental Defense Fund says that close to 90% of tuna and swordfish have disappeared