Thursday, May 3, 2007

Timeline

May 3: Experiment
May 4: Experiment
May 5: Find out about drainage system
May 6: Power Point
May 7: See what everyone has done

My group's second inquiry is Specific solutions to address flooding in the city. These are some solutions to address flooding in Jakarta:
(1) Stop converting parks, lakes and swamps into housing.
(2) Make people stop throwing rubbish anywhere they want.
(3) Plant more trees so when water comes down from Bogor or Puncak trees will hold the water and also soils.
(4)Make rivers deeper and wider.

Humans of course needs place to live but not to much. Because if you are going to make a residential place you need to have a land and usually that land is filled with trees. We know that trees can absorb water. So if we build to any residential place we cannot make it to big and to wide because the more land you use the more trees you cut and the less air you will breathe.

If people don't stop throwing rubbish wherever they want there will always be floods happening in Jakarta every rainy season. When you throw rubbish on the road it will land on streets. Then when it rains, the water will carry the trash. Water will always flow to lower places so the water will flow to gutters. If there are too many trash, the trash will block the way for water to get in the gutter so water will stay there and if there are too many water it will cause flood.

Trees help us with lots of things. They provide air for us to breathe, trees help us if there is water flowing it will absorb them and also the trees will also hold the soil so it doesn't flow with the water. If humans keep on doing illegal logging, we will have lass air and of course we will get more floods. When the water flows most of the water will be absorb by the trees and if there are no trees the water will flow really fast to the lower city or places. The soil also comes with the water but if there are lots of trees the soil will be hold by the trees and if there are no trees the rivers that are usually deep will be shallow because there are lots of mud inside it and the lower the river is the less water it can hold.And that causes flood.

So starting from now on we have to plant more trees because that really effects floods from happening. If we can't plant more trees then we have to make rivers wider and deeper. Because like I said before the deeper and wider the river is the more water it can hold. So from now on please do not contribute to make floods.













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