The community's responsibility at LSR

Singapore is a small country with little or no natural resources, so it has to find means to generate a sustainable water supply for the people. This water supply is obtained through four main taps, NEWater, Imported water, Desalinated water and Local catchment areas. 

Lower Seletar Reservoir is one of our national taps, being a water catchment area, hence we need to take care of it well as it is our responsibility. 

If we fail to take care of it properly, disastrous consequences would occur. There may enough water to support the population of Singapore in the coming years and the price of water will inflate. 

Going a step further, the more advanced way of solving the problem of water pollution as students, is to organise a VIA activity to promote water and environmental cleanliness. This can be done so by perhaps, organising a litter picking activity as a class. We could also take the more artistic turn, by designing posters spreading the awareness of water and environmental cleanliness.

However, the people of Singapore do not take heed of such advice. A sad and sorry sight nowadays is discarded plastic wrappers strewn among the pathways, plastic bottles thrown carelessly on the grass patches, joggers spitting into the fast becoming polluted river, now a murky green colour instead of the endless blue of its former glory. An enemy that must be conquered and vanquished, that of littering, which encompasses all the above mentioned problems.

Conclusion

After this programme, we can conclude that the most elementary way of solving the problem of water pollution is to stop littering. Littering is the root cause of the problem as that is what causes the water to be polluted with chemicals, thus ruining the water cleanliness and also, ruining the living environment for marine life.

Since recreational activities such as picnicking and barbeque are the main causes of the water pollution, we should do our part by throwing our rubbish into the public rubbish bins instead of getting rid of them by throwing them into the reservoir. Also, littering in the reservoir can cause the pollution as the wind would blow the litters into the water body.

Ways to encourage community to participate in trail and also visit LSR:

·         Hold more events/activities that encourages public to take part in it at LSR ( E.G.Family events/activities  )

·         Different Schools organize more field trips to LSR so that students can participate in the programmes such as ABC learning trail

·         Encourage public to Do VIA at LSR

·         Put up posters that includes informations about LSR

·         Organise more informative talks for the students of different schools in Singapore. Such as programmes that are available at LSR

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