Building on your watershed:
Clay = river bank
Sand = soil
Coffee Filters = Agricultural / Industrial land
Green fuzzballs = trees
Pipes
Sponges = Wetlands
Tin Foil = Roads (salt)
Jello Powder = effluent
Elevation block
What's the issue with the Lake Simcoe Watershed.....
Draining wetlands to be used as farmland
Wetlands, contain phosphorus and act as filters for the watershed, draining them impacts the rivers/lakes that have to receive the extra water.
Eutrophication: lack of oxygen at the bottom of the water body; impossible for fish to survive there.
Public Waste: Bathing, Laundry and Defecation
Industrial Waste: Tanneries, Chemical Plants, Textile Mills, Distilleries, Slaughterhouses
Religious Events: 70 Million people bathe in the Ganges over a period of a few weeks; materials are often left behind.
500 Million people rely on this river for water.....
BUT...
Mining in the Ring of Fire has potential to produce:
$6.2 Billion in revenue for Ontario
5,500 new jobs annually
It's time for us to decide
Activity 1:
Understand your aim and present it.
Objectives of others?
Scenario 2:
A new Government has been elected. They're eager to develop! You need to make alliances if you hope to persuade them.
Whose vioce is missing?
Scenario 3:
What are you willing to give up? In order to gain something you really want?
Everything comes at a cost...
How do we make a decision?
Scenario 4:
The Breaking Point: Things have taken a turn.
How do you react: what's next?
scenario 5:
Your actions have proven we can't move forward without a plan.
Get Consensus, if possible. Make a plan.
All Canadians share in the responsibility to protect our waters.
The Question is ...who gets to decide?
Watershed + Mining ...
What are the features?
Precious mineral
Weighs, on average, 110 tons.
Each year mining companies, on average, dump hundreds of millions of tons of waste in lakes, oceans and rivers.
That's the equivalent of more than 1.6 million blue whales.....
Guiyu, Guangdong, China
generates $200 million in tourism/rec income for local economy
75 species of Fish
50 different species in Lake Simcoe
Over 32 species at risk
Objective: demonstrate downstream effluents
Procedure:
1. Add sand and effluent pipes
2. Build on your watershed
3. Add effluent
4. Elevate watershed
5. Await Further Instructions
Wetlands = 13%
over 400,000 people living on the watershed
5 million people living on the river
Citarum River
More than 2,000 industries
3 hydroelectric power dams