2011年3月7日 星期一

Taiwan, unsafety of my homeland!


The video created me to make a new entry of this week.
Will I have to move-out from my country and immigrating to another country?
After I saw this video, I felt terrible and terrific of imagine my country will be covered by sea in the future.


Sea level rise by meters causes submergence of land areas in Taiwan

This news about Taiwan has been making the alarming to Taiwanese. Based on subsidence caused by poor land use practice. "Environmentalists consider the risk too high to ignore, and they point out that it is compounded by the overpumping of groundwater both for traditional agriculture and for fish farming.This has caused the groundwater level to fall and land to subside below sea level in some coastal areas, experts warn." (Watts up with that)
  
The fish-farming industry in western and northeastern Taiwan requires more ground water than is needed for irrigation. This kind of over-pumping of ground water causes the serious problems of land, examples, subsidence or sinking in the coastal areas. "According to a recent survey, an area of up to 1,097 square kilometers suffers from subsidence: this is 3% of the island’s total land area and 9% of its flat area. This problem obviously needs an immediate and effective solution." (Watts up with that)

 Land subsidence in Jiadong township, Pingtung, Taiwan

I don't want my country being lost in the future!
I love my country, because it is valuable that other countries can not replace it.  
We need to avoid the natural disasters and save our planet!  


Reference
Watts up with that 
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/10/taiwan-subsidence-or-sea-level-rise/


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