Taguibo Watershed

Think about the following statement: “Only communities located downstream in a watershed need to be concerned about how the water resources are managed in the watershed.” In my opinion, I strongly disagree with this statement. This essay will explain why even communities upstream a watershed should be concerned due to acid rain, and the risk of contaminated drinking water.

In order to address the issue of clean water availability, the objectives must address multiple levels of the social-ecological model simultaneously. Three overarching objectives will be addressed. 1) The current public water system must increase in capacity. The current public water system is small and up to 40% of households do not have access to the public water system (2). 2) Due to the rural nature of the population, expansion of the current system should begin

The origins of the Belo Monte project heralds from an earlier plan schemed in the 80’s that would have a total of seven dams up and down the Xingu River, one of the last open tributaries of Amazon. Then called the Kararaô Complex, it was opposed and struck down in 1989 by the organization of indigenous and environmental groups that attracted a lot of media coverage (“Brazil’s”). At that time the project would have flooded 18,000 square kilometers of land, compared to the 668 square kilometers that will be flooded now. Obviously it would have affected far more than just the indigenous and riverine people of the Xingu River basin, and was easier to oppose due to the little review of the initial project and the fact that the peoples directly affected by it were never consulted before it was approved by the Brazilian government. After the crushing defeat of the Kararaô Complex the government reworked the entire project and quietly went through all the correct avenues to being approved while simultaneously ignoring injunctions against it (“Histόrico”). The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that was required by the government found that the dam would “directly effect” only 1,500 kilometers, and did not consider the indirect impacts of the drying of the 100 kilometer “Big Bend” area that sustains at least three indigenous groups. From there in 2010 the project was approved and privatized to the Norte Energia Consortium

The thirst for water has lead individuals and organizations to build dams across rivers at an alarming rate. During the early 1900s dams were being built so fast it was no longer big news when a dam was completed. These structures provided controlled irrigation water and hydroelectric power to the communities not only close to the reservoirs and dams, but also provided irrigation water and hydroelectric power to communities many miles away from the river. Negatively blocking the flow of the river has impacted fish ecosystems, increased evaporation of water, and flooded intricately important landscapes. These negative impacts, it can be argued, affect the humans living downstream or within the flood plain of the dam site. Dams

What is a watershed? A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place. You think every creek is the same but in reality they’re not. In this essay we are comparing San Mateo and San Juan creek.

The objectives are habitat restoration, flood control, water quality, recreation development, and stewardship. The council has recommended to the City of Elk Grove the use of green infrastructure. This would allow for more of a natural drainage system that would preserve floodplains, wetland areas, and protects stream corridors. (Laguna Creek Watershed Council Work

“The watershed is bordered by the Palmer Divide to the north, Pikes Peak and the Pike National Forest to the west, and a minor divide 20 miles east of Colorado Springs”(Fountain Creek Watershed, 2015). The watershed area is described as an area with extremes temperature and precipitation, large elevation changes, steep gradients, diverse ecosystems, and a multitude of water uses. The elevation of this watershed area can vary from 14,100 feet to 5,000 feet of elevation. The Fountain Creek is the main creek in this watershed. This watershed supplies resources to more than 1,434,000 residents within the watershed. This is an increase of over 156% of population increase since1960. This watershed also provides irrigation to more than 100 farms and ranches in this area. “The rate of residential and commercial development is increasing in the watershed.” (Fountain Creek Watershed, 2015) The creek in this area does not provide public recreation due to some contamination issues in the past and recent events such as the E. coli case. People in the surrounding communities, do enjoy spending time next to the creek for recreation in many public parks.

The fourth chapter, Conservation Chapter, has the main purpose of engaging the community in sustainable practices and improves livability in face of economic and population growth. It is subdivided into three main elements, Conservation, Environmental Planning and Water Resources, which are in turn subdivided into many topics. This chapter is important as it

The watershed model is used to develop projections of peak stream flows and water surface (flood)

This project proposes that the stream banks be corrected from their current state of severe soil erosion. Some of the walls of soil surrounding the stream can reach approximately 1.8 meters in depth. Where the runoff drain meets the stream can even reach up to approximately 2.6 meters. The walls of the stream bank are a vault of in situ soils slowly restoring themselves to low sloping conditions through more erosion. This is an indicator that there has been extreme down cutting as result of stream channelization.

Daniel Weintraub in the article, ‘’ River Restoration Project Offers a Sprinkling of Hope ’’ states that interest groups are collaborating with each other to benefit people and exposes that through the river restoration project, their teams are developing. Weintraub supports his point by showing that he researched about the issue of the river restoration project. The author’s purpose is to show that he is a writer who uses straightforward vocabulary words; in his article he makes the reader understand his main purpose of writing the article. The author writes in a formal tone for the audience to best understand his analysis of the restoration project.

Our watershed is important to us; it is what we need for are water, food, and growth of our environment. It makes us successful as a whole but when we damage it we damage everything we need and work to grow and protect. By doing a couple things for Greeley’s watershed we as a whole can start to change the pollution in our watershed. The plan is to use water barrels to collect the water that runs off the greenhouse at Northridge high school into gutters and the fills the barrels. When the greenhouse plants need water you get a hose and turn it on . with the native plants being planted around the greenhouse that are going to be grown the plants will be space out from the rest but be placed where they will be seen all around

The basin is dealing with low water levels that are polluted from the agriculture sector that surrounds the area. It houses 11 fish species, native

Nardoo riverbank in the Tanunda area is greatly damaged which could be due to lack of vegetation, dredging or soil erosion and agriculture or farming. The vegetation along the banks of Nardoo River plays an important role in filtering nutrients in the river. Many of the vegetation area on the river edge have been removed due to farming and dredging in this area.

The 100,000 acres of watershed protected by the Ko’olau Mountains Watershed Partnership serve as an invaluable resource. Without the support of the Partnership, this amazing natural resource could be in imminent danger from a variety of threats. Conserving our forests enables us to preserve the water supply that we depend on, so actively working to sustain that supply by protecting the forests is in the best interest of everyone who resides in or visits this paradise on earth. Through the efforts of the Ko’olau Mountains Watershed Partnership, we are able to maintain the delicate balance needed to ensure the longevity of the watershed of the Ko’olau Mountains.