Croatia and Montenegro join to prevent sea pollution
In this week blog, I chose a news article that reports on the efforts of Croatia and Montenegro to reduce sea pollution. The two countries plan to come together in a joint effort of protecting the Adriatic Sea from pollution. This project was approved by the European Commission, who granted the two countries 616,000 euros to finance the project, which will be split in half between the two countries.
The main source of pollution in the Adriatic Sea comes from imporper sewage diosposal and sewage leakage. In Montenegro, the main areas of concern are the Bojana River, Bar Port, and Port of Montenegro. In Croatia, the main area of concern is the Dubrovnok-Neretva municipality, which is close to the Montenegrin border.
Environmental experts from both countries will bring their environmental protection ideas together to create new and modernized methods of assessing and cleaning up the water. The local areas around the project sites will be places that receive direct benefits of the project, which include a better environment, cleaner water, and a better economy. Another goal of the project is to create more awareness of the consequences of pollution, whether it is in the ground, air or water. There is a need for awareness on how to properly dispose of waste and garbage, so the society can create a cleaner future.
This sea protection project is a huge step forward in environmental protection. Pollution in the waterways, including the seas and oceans, can and will have an impact on more than jsut the source country due to wind and currents carrying the pollution. There is a rise in global awareness of pollution problems, and an increase in the number of people who are “living green”. However, there are several countries that do not have a public news source or a way to inform people of the negative consequences that pollution has on the environment. That is where the world needs to focus. We need to inform people throughout the entire world on how to dispose of waste so we can prevent future pollution and create a cleaner world.
A weakness of this article is that it does not report in detail on how the project will take action to reduce pollution in the Adriatic Sea. It would be nice for the reader to know what implication the two countries plan to take in order to reduce and clean up the pollution of the Adriatic Sea.
April 5, 2013 2:14 PM
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2013/02/28/feature-02
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