Report: Argentina´s main environmental problems

The aim of this report is to show the main environmental problems in Argentina, their consequences, what is being done and the best solution for them. It is also very important to notice how humans are affecting the environment and what little things they could do to help it. In this case there are no advantages of pollution but there is an extremely long list of things that could be avoided and aren´t.

·        There are many places in which water that could be drunk is polluted:

       That makes that many people can´t drink it and die.

       The Riachuelo is a great example of how potable water is dismissed and of how people pollute it knowing the danger and the gravity of it.

       Only a 0.025% of the water in the Earth is potable, if it is all put in a pail, only a spoon of tea is sweet potable water.

Long term dangers

       Most probably, because of all this, in a not so far future there will be no more sweet water.

       Many people think that water always evaporate and go again to oceans and lakes, but only a 20% of the water does that. So they don´t take care of it.

       The construction of many dams, which seems to be a very good think for environment, caused that many rivers or lakes of sweet water weren´t available for drinking it because they were used for electricity. This is a very complicated aspect to analyze because it is great that energy is produced in a renewable way, but it´s consequences haven´t been studied most probably.

What is being done?

       Argentina has many laws against water pollution but they are not being obey and nobody care about it.

       So anything is being done.

What should be done?

       While washing teeth or cleaning the cutlery the tap should be closed.

       People should take short baths.

       Garbage shouldn´t be thrown in rivers, lakes or oceans.

       Water the garden should be something that is done when the sun doesn´t shine so much, at the late evening.

       Watering the garden can be done with non-potable water.

       The water from the swimming-pools which is changed may be recycled.

       The rain water should be taken in advantage for watering

·        Traffic, most of the people drive cars on their own, while maybe they could take the bus or drive with other people who are going to the same place such as work or school mates.

     That pollutes the air and makes many noises which doesn´t pollute so directly the environment but anyway it does.

     It is a pity that most of the people careless about this.

     It is also cheaper to travel by train, bus, walking, cycling or in a shared car than taking your car or a taxi by your own.

Long-term dangers

     One day there will be no more petrol and people will be worried about it and will start to think why they didn´t save it in the past but it will be too late and people will have to cycle or walks everywhere.

What is being done?

     Maybe the thing of creating a card which allows you to go everywhere with it and not to have coins with you that they are maybe difficult to find is good because you can take a bus or a train with no excuses, before, if you don´t have coins you had to take a taxi yes or yes, or walk but only for short distances.

What should be done?

     People should take a public transport or a bike for traveling to a near place.

     For going to school or work people should walk if it is near. Or with friends who are going to the same or a near place.

·        Incontrollable landfills, this proposes to burn all the solid garbages in the urban areas, but also the toxic ones from factories and hospitals, but they create new and worst problems such as illnesses.

Long-term dangers

      Many people will die because the toxic gases produce illnesses such as cancer.

      Those gases contribute to the greenhouse effect, another important problem.

What is being done?

      Argentina signed a treaty with all the people who lived near landfills and with other countries also in the Estocolmo´s agreement.

      There is a law that prohibits the use of landscapes but it is not bing obey and in 2007 the government tried to use landfills again but it was denounced by Greenpeace.

What should be done?

      People should have many different bins with different colors each in their houses, one for organic garbage, one for paper and cardboard, one for plastic bottles and bags, and another one for glasses. Then each of them have a truck. All the garbage should be recycled or deposited in a safe place in which there is no people living near.

      There should be bins all over the cities of the four colors because if not all the work that is done in the houses is waisted. Anyway people have to do this, not just have the bins and throw everything to the same one.

·        Waste of natural resources, there are many ways of not abusing of them but people careless about them because they will be over in millions of years and it won´t be their problem but it will be of their great great great great great grand children and it is not nice to let that future to our families. This problem is related with the traffic one because it not only talks about gases, also about the petrol that is waisted as if it was for eternity.

Long term-dangers

     Most probably in a not so far future most of the natural resources that we normally use won´t be available and life will be very difficult, no because of petrol because it is not that necessary but water is completely needed, life would not be possible with out it.

What is being done?

     Nothing, there are agreements but nobody care about them.

What should be done?

     People should walk or cycle more because it does not need petrol but it is also healthier and cheaper!

     There should be buses that go all over the cities not to just a few places.

     There also should be more buses with the same destination so that more people could travel.

     Public transports should be clean and safe to encourage people to travel on them.