Hello! I am an environmental science student/geography student going into my senior year of undergrad. My question is: What long-term solutions do you have for areas that simply have no way to manage their new, cleaned-up areas?
Last summer, I spent some time in Guatemala (Lake Atitlan) to collect data and learn about water quality/overall environmental health of the area. The towns we visited were primarily of Mayan tradition. Although there were many local Guatemalans working to educate these communities on the importance of waste management and healthy agricultural practices, their simply aren't the funds to physically do anything about it.
Their government has some money set aside for environmental projects and clean up, but (from what I was told by the Guatemalan grad students we were working with), they money tends to magically "disappear."
Even if someone like yourself were to go in to Lake Atitlan, clean up the lake and establish new agricultural programs and build water treatment plants -- do you think that would last? Without the funds to manage the upkeep, the clean lake could not possibly be sustainable. What solutions do you have for situations like this?
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Hello! I am an environmental science student/geography student going into my senior year of undergrad. My question is: What long-term solutions do you have for areas that simply have no way to manage their new, cleaned-up areas?
Last summer, I spent some time in Guatemala (Lake Atitlan) to collect data and learn about water quality/overall environmental health of the area. The towns we visited were primarily of Mayan tradition. Although there were many local Guatemalans working to educate these communities on the importance of waste management and healthy agricultural practices, their simply aren't the funds to physically do anything about it.
Their government has some money set aside for environmental projects and clean up, but (from what I was told by the Guatemalan grad students we were working with), they money tends to magically "disappear."
Even if someone like yourself were to go in to Lake Atitlan, clean up the lake and establish new agricultural programs and build water treatment plants -- do you think that would last? Without the funds to manage the upkeep, the clean lake could not possibly be sustainable. What solutions do you have for situations like this?
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