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In case you have forgotten, I’d like to remind you that we passed World Water Day in 22 March. This year’s theme is “Water Scarcity”. In my previous post, indeed I put several rows talking about water scarcity and few pictures of it as an example, when it displayed several kids need water badly in the middle of dessert.
I found this very interesting to find out, how to quantify potential loss, societal cost due to gas emission from our transportation. Let’s do the math now!
I just read my local newspaper and there were two news catching my eyes. The first one was talking about water scarce in Tiongkok, or some of you may say China. While we sometimes use water excessively and exploit water too much, there are our brothers out there who need water badly. Water scarce as reported happens in Hainan Province, South of Tiongkok due to hight dryness. More than 120 thousands people experienced clean water crisis and paddy field dry due to lack of water.
Drinking water scarce, it was the headline of popular newspaper in my city. Citizens were yelling to ask local authority to safe drinking water. The problem is, water is renewable resource, which will never be empty, always be there for water supply. So, why do these people feel that they do not get appropriate drinking that they deserve to get?
Today, I have Environmental Emerging Contaminants class. Its relatively new subject in Taiwan, especially in Indonesia. However, I am not going to talk about these particular contaminants, but I promise to myself, as soon as I have time, I will make some introduction of emerging contaminants.
It’s really challenging or either quite confusing for those whose background is not related to global warming or air pollution. I am Environmental Engineer, but I am really not major on this. This begins when I watched A Unconvenient Truth, presented by Al-Gore, when at the movie he talked about global warming, and the problem is this movie was shown on the class which has nothing to do with global warming, Environmental Emerging Contaminants. Amazingly, I keep thinking about the impact that may occur because of global warming, from what he said.
Obviously, what the movie was telling that, we have been emitting such huge amount of CO2 annually, and that cause the increase of solar radiation trapped by this gas, thus results in an increased temperature, and rise the temperature. The effect, ice melting, just like what had happened in Canadian Arctic recently as a result of global warming.
Nope, not literally “global warming” wins but the movie that is talking about global warming. Yup, Al Gore, main actor on his documentary movie “An Inconvenient Truth” has won Oscar for best documentary movie.