Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Save Irrawaddy


IT'S not strange to read about global warming is happening all over the world and some leading countries are trying to save our world at a healthy level. Scientists are highlighting the emission of carbon from a factory prone countries especially from developing countries. Some research charts are showing that China is the most carbon emitting state and suggested to practice in reducing the current rate. Recent meeting in Norway, this global warming is top agenda among others. The rich and leading countries were gathering and tried to find out a best solution in healing the already flawed earth. I don't know if they had produced some good solution from that meeting. But for sure is they are willing to cure our world by collecting funds from all attending states and found a firm to pay attention this particular matter.

Of course, our country is one of world community and we can't afford to neglect this global concerning problem. We have to do our part in saving world if not we can't afford to donate or suggest in world's community. Nowadays, we cannot ignore the matters out of our boulder line because it can be affected vicariously within our territory. So we may need to look at around with a wider view for long term benefit. Probably to control out of our territory is impossible for a poor country. But we, at least, can do someway in practicing to save our world. We are solely responsible for this global warming as we, people, are badly cutting our forest and failed to replace it within a short time. To do so, we all must have to take responsibility and willing to cooperate with the government. On the other hand, our govt must have a proper plan/ scheme for forthcoming time.

Without a proper plan, uneducated people will take no action upon losing our trees as they are struggling to survive from their daily life's expenses. We cannot afford to see short term profit if we are really appreciate in our future's safe. Just ignore about things that we can't control and already existed. We shouldn't do any project that against our natural resource's balance. These days, rivers in the world are facing severe shortage of source/supply of water to continue it's normal function. Just look at our neighbouring countries, Mekong, Ginga, Yanzi are already under threat and their respective country's authority are trying to save them. How about our country's life blood river, Irrawaddy?

Of course she also cannot be exception, and started to suffer side affects. I read some articles from online journal and see her unwell. She is not look like a river and probably degrading to a stream or creek. What a poor once a powerful river? I remember my younger days I spent with her as a boy. We are happy when it raise and close to our town as we don't need to go far to collect water and there would be more place to play during a bath time. She used to hug my home town once/twice a year. We are happy despite our parents are busy with shifting their properties to protect from deterioration. Once it go back after few days or weeks, we are missing her and we'ld find it hard to play around.

At winter and summer, she'll flow silently and her complexion is blue and clear at most time. We are happy to play on the bank and sometime try to catch fishes. Now she is not like before and had changed a lot in appearance and function. Last time most of the people are relying on her in water transportation for goods and passenger. Now she seems helpless to its community and people are pity seeing her become thin and weak. She is no longer powerful like before and never roar as before. Within my generation, she's changed a lot and I am missing her so much since I left my home town for education following working. I rarely went back my home town since then and now I'm temporarily stay and working in oversea.

Once I read about the drought of other's main river in the world, I was worried about our Irrawaddy. Now time come for her and how do we avoid and protect it to save her recovery. What I think is not because of global warming alone but artificial mistake. We tried to build a lot of dams to create a reservoir all over the country and it affectively stop water resource to main river. As we all known, river got its water from its related stream and creeks. So it is obvious to understand, when its source are halted, river would be affected as a result. Another one reason is speedy cutting of our forest and losing trees for eco cycle. Since rivers get water from raining, she'll be crying when rain are never come during rainy season. Do you know why? Most likely we have lost our forest to maintain our weather in perfect.

I learnt this year summer is hottest in decade and it's really alarming to us. Our farms are now lack of water irrigation due to lack of supply water. There is no rain, where come water for Dam's reservoir? There is less water flow in river, where come water from river water raising project? These day, our govt is trying to generate electricity from hydro power project. To the best of my knowledge, these kind of project are halting water flow of entire steam or small river. What shall we do with them? For sure is our main river is cut for its water supply and become slimmer. I don't know what are consequent in detail as I am not an environmentalist. But it'ld be better if we made a proper survey before we plan to do any future project in order to prevent adverse affect by doing them.

We cannot buy our natural resource, we cannot get back our beauty land, if we don't know how to maintain them properly and we don't consider deeply. What kind of future do we want to hand over to our next generation? Greener or Plainer? It's up to us. Our future would be black and white if we don't do our part in practicing to save our rivers and natural resources. I hope we still got time to do it now. Never think late if you are going to do good things especially something special for the sake of our people's benefit. Wish our people possess the best environment in this poor world. One picture can tell a lot words, they said. I herewith attached a picture from eleven website to witness. Hope you all unhappy to see her like this as well if you are my fellow citizen.

Save rivers, Save ourselves.

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  1. အင္း။။။။။။။။ဇင္မင္းျငိမ္း ေရ ဧရာဝတီ ေဘးမွာၾကီးလာေပမက္ ေမ့ေနမိတယ္။ မေကြးကျပန္လာရင္ေတာ့ အိမ္ကေန ျမစ္ဆိပ္ ကိုေရခ်ိဳး ဆင္းလို႕ရေသးလား လို႕ေျပာျပအုန္း ေနာ္။

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