Click on Water Crisis Photos and view all 22 images from Time magazine and read the captions underneath. Some photographs are breathtakingly beautiful and some are alarming. Look at all of them and then choose one that has affected you in some way, either positively or negatively. Explain how you feel about the photograph and why.Enjoy reading what your classmates have to say. You will have until Tuesday, September 20th at midnight to post your comments.
(The seventh photo) I was astounded to see the emotional expression on the elementary students’ face in Beijing. Also, the high percentage of polluted drinking water stunned me. Even though I had lived in China for years, I had no idea how dangerous our drinking water was and no first-hand experience of water shortages in my memory. After reading the picture, I realised that such photos should be showed to help raise awareness about “water is the source of the life”. Equally important, preserving and saving water is the responsibility to all levels of governments, industries and individuals. Therefore, it is time for us to wake up from this sad situation, stand up for precious water resources to provide a sustainable environment for us and our future generations.
ReplyDeleteThe picture i choose is number11
ReplyDeleteThe time I saw this picture, a strong emotional hit emerged in my mind; I felt either sad and sorry for those who were suffering the devastation and irate at these who had forgotten the people’s properties and safety but destroyed the natural resources to fulfill their small self-goal(wealth). I had ever encountered this situation when I was in senior high. My classmates and I rushed to the bathroom after a full-day study, we had intended to bath to get rid of exhaustion, whereas the water running from the faucets were mixed with slurry, so we were very angry but no solution to it. Finally, we went to bed with disappointment, anger and worries. Needless to say, those people who had experienced this kind of hardship for ten years would have more complex feelings. It can be evidently seen from the picture that the father and son were hopeless. Even though they called for the government to take some steps to help them out, it needed too much time to wait for the coming of measures. What could they do? Escaping to other cities needs a lot of money and makes you leave the surroundings that you are familiar, protesting the government makes you guilty, more badly, it possibly did not work. So the only way for people is to wait.
I assume that authority should pay more attention to exploit new powers which have little influences on water and environment. Fossil fuel plays a very important part in our today’s world, but it is very clear that fossil fuel is unsustainable; we must develop and make the best of new energy such as solar energy, wind energy and tidal energy. Although there are pros and cons to everything, I believe that whoever possesses the power can practically own people’s pocket book, so those mining boss should divert their center to new power instead of continuously exploiting fossil fuel that is in the brink of death.
Imagine the time when the water running out from your home faucet, imagine the moment when you find there are some impurities in daily drinking water, and imagine the day when you are surrounded by contaminated water. You are very likely to become crazy and hopeless in this situation. So it is vital for you, me and world to preserve water resource.
I like the 5th picture which was taken from Kensan village on Pete Island. People always used to ground water for domestic as well agricultural perposes. General people also have a commmon belief that water is unlimited. When I saw that 5th picture, I looked back to my country. Bangladesh has huge sweet water which is not safe for drinking. With the government support, people of all village, we have more than 80000 village, commissioned shallow tube wells for getting drinking as well as house hold water. We need only 30-40 feets deep tube/pipe to have this water 25 years ago. Now maximum shallow tube wells fail to lift water because of lowering ground water level. A growing number tube well is also producing poisonous water. We are going to face another human made disester.
ReplyDeleteThe most impressed me is fifth picture, because it is really shocked me. Even though before I was heard some countries was lack of water, but I never imagine it how could be look like. When I finished watch all pictures, I feel sad about which country were serious water shortage. Compared with them, I feel I was so luck, I didn't live in that situation. In this picture, I realized that there is still have many people who were lack of drinking water, they are went to far away area and spend countless hours for seeking water resource. Those pictures really warming us need to pay attention to protect our environmental will not destroy by human beings and take into consideration about our future life.
ReplyDeleteAll of these 22 images from Time magazine are impressed me. The first three pictures are incredible wonderful and the rest of the photographs shocked me by the facts of water crisis all around the world. I checked all of the Water Crisis Photos and found out the nineteenth picture-“seeding” reminded me a Disney cartoon movie Wall E. In the movie, in the not far away future; human being has abandoned the earth because the earth has covered with trash and has no resource can be used anymore. Only a robot – Wall E has been left to clean up trash. I remember that when I saw this movie; I saw it as a “movie” movie. I didn’t realize that the fact of water crisis in the earth had become extraordinary seriously. I use to take water as granted. Now, I believe if we don’t take water crisis seriously, we will lose our planet in not far away future.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked by the tenth picture. When I was in China, the media revealed the scandal of Lianhua MSG Factory who always polluted the local river. Actually, the local resident hated the Lianhua Factory. However, the local governments welcomed the Lianhua to built new factory in their area only because it can pay lots of tax. Environmentalists have sued the Lianhua for several times, but they could get victory because Lianhua was owned by the China central government. Why did twenty-five to thirty-three percent of Chinese have no enough safe drinking water? The main reason is that the community party government does really work for the citizen. The government protected the kind of the Lianhua Factory. I am very unhappy for that. Fortunately, I lived in Calgary now. I will try my best to protect the water resourse.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked when I saw the eleventh picture. It made me feel fortunate that I have never experienced such incident. What should we do? It actually describes how the water authority lost control of the water quality before it is distributed to the public use. Moreover, the coal mining company should've had an advanced plan to avoid a worst case scenario. This project might cost less than $30 million which is the amount of lawsuit that the company had to pay, excluding the social and public health costs. Last but not least, the company's reputation could be kept high.
ReplyDeleteI viewed all 22 images. It was terrible places as hell except some beautiful pictures. OMG
ReplyDeleteI have never seen before like these pictures... it is very serious problem....than I thought...OMG
I choose first picture that is awesome and depressing also because the water in there still has decreased from people.
I believed the earth is coming to an end.
However, We are luky! Do not waste a lot water washin your someting.
All of 22 images from Time Magazine are affected me. First few photos are nice and relax. However, rest of all very awful. I choose for explanation photo 11. There is bad-smelling, dirty water in the people buildings in Virginia. I remember when I lived in my country many years ago, the same situation happened. Because nobody knows about water crises on that time, we just blamed on local authorities. I think this is a time when we need understand and appreciate importance of clean water.
ReplyDeleteShould the Nestle pay for the water resource? Yes, of course. The kind of this company (Nestle, Coke and Pepsi) should pay for the water resource to the local people. When the companies take the water to package to bottle, they are robbing the local people. In the statement of the article “Message in a Bottle”, over half Fiji people have no access to the clean, fresh water. However, those giant enterprises sell one millions bottles Fiji water in the US. They get tremendous profit from the bottle water, but they don’t feedback to the local community. In order to produce the bottle water, they build the bottling factories and big electricity generators. The local neighbourhood suffer the pollution of the plants and get a tiny benefit from these international companies because they control the water resource. It is very unfair for the local residents. The local public should have the right to say no to these private companies. They should have the right to share the profit of the water plants which is owned by those big companies.
ReplyDeleteFoto #10. So far, I know a lotus flower is a beautiful flower that grows in water. In the picture is the total opposite of it. The factory that pollutes the river is one of many others in China and one from thousands around the globe that pollute everyday our water and our lives. It is sad, even heartbreaking to look at all these pictures because it shows human ignorance towards the nature and ourselves. At the same time, I like these photos because they make us to think about this major problem and maybe they will make others and us to act, to do something. Maybe we will take shorter showers or use less detergent, or more small steps that can contribute to reduce the pollution and usage of water. I encourage everyone to think and act!!!
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