Bogota river pollution

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Bogota river pollution
 Essay by: Pablo Niño

In my city there is a problem with people dumping used motor oil and paint and other things into the storm drains the sewers that all drained into the Bogotá river, the city is right on the Bogota river there isn’t a central sewer system to clean up this kind of stuff. Bogota river is over exploitation of natural resources, as well as unsustainable development policies. Destruction of the environment, and desertification of forests. this river issue reflects the larger scale damage to the environment. If this continues, the damage will become irreversible, and organisms will become extinct. The consequence is frightening.

With the expansion of the city, construction of businesses and homes took place on landfills over river. Also, most of water conservancy development is derived from intercepting the river, and diverting water. These constructions either cut off the river flow or simply kill the river. This affected by water scarcity. River being seriously polluted. According to the officials’ 95% of the river has water quality which is totally unusable. The policies for quick success and a nature of blindly pursuing interests have over exploited the river. This is the cost of excessive consumption of natural resources. It destructs nature, and causes great pain to the people. the government is responsible for it. For many years pollution has been a social issue.

It shows that, anyone is concerned about environmental problems, it’s hard to say for sure, I mean I think some people are concerned but probably not enough and others are absolutely not,

in my point of view yet, really there are people who take environmental problems seriously enough to actually have environmental friendly behaviors like recycling their rubbish doing, energy conservation and stuff, but almost all our people are indifferent to environmental related issues, because they think that’s not theirs to care, we don’t care about resource depletion, we don’t care about natural disaster, man-made disaster, we don’t care about any kinds of pollutions or conservation. we all know that the worlds resources are being used at an alarming rate, but no one seems to feel that there’s responsibility to change the way we leave.

This environmental problem is serious, I think there might be some possible reasons for that as we know in some cases, is simply because people are not affected on a day to day basis, so it does not concern them they just saw the problems on the news affecting other people, it does not mean that they don’t care, but they will soon forget about it, also some people think including us, we can’t deny it, as is the long-term problem we will be dead by the time it will affect us, so we think is not important for us right now leave for the moment, but we don’t care about what holds the future generation.

I so believe that the government isn’t doing enough to tackle the environmental problem, in contrast, there is cities around Colombia that do what they can do to help their people when problems occur and they are trying to come up with measures to mitigate the effects, but when it comes to the major issue of pollution of the rivers cities are not doing enough or sometimes doing wrong like dumping of industrial and animal wastes happening in Bogotá daily, it is typical example. The government knows that to make a serious step to this, what this problem they will help to separate by economic or political roles and they are not prepared to do this, as we know government seem very short term they knows that if they’re a economic decline then they will be
voted out but, don’t know that if they do not accept they will be turned back on by their own people.

To respond well to environmental problems, on the one hand there are various agencies trying to solve this pollute issue, other things with humanitarian aid after natural and man-made disasters, and. on the other hand we have environmental pressure groups that are constantly raising awareness of issues and trying to stop disaster from happening, however nothing will work with our efforts from each other on, so we need to wake up and save the river.



 

References



Fundación al Verde, Corporación Autónoma Regional-CAR. (28 April 2015). Sostenibilidad semana. Bogotá. Col. Retrieved November 21,2017, from http://sostenibilidad.semana.com/medio-ambiente/articulo/rio-bogota-contaminacion-tregua/32929
Gustavo Carrasquel, (13 June 2012) Environmental, Ecologists and Conservationists News from the Americas. Canada. Anca24. Retrieved November 21, 2017, from ttps://anca24canada.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/colombia-evidence-shows-high-levels-of-pollution-in-the-bogota-river/






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