Having fun and being eco-friendly at hidric reservatories

[marachris1]

Passaúna is a watershed region in the South Brazil, city of Curitiba. It supplies water to more than 3 million people (Curitiba, Campo Largo, Campo Magro, Araucária and Almirante Tamandaré).

The region of Passaúna is inhabited by 500 thousand people, and lots of visitors to its fishing clubs and artificial beaches. Unfortunately, there is plenty of plastic and garbage in the region (when there should be none), as well as contaminants that reach the water in the reservoir. The idea is to sensitize the people who live and frequent the region to take care of this natural heritage.

And one of the ways that Google offers us is this: through photos of the place, all its beauty, and also the need to draw attention to some habits that are bad, compromising the local sustainability, but can be easily solved (such as taking away our trash with us and /or discarding it correctly).

[RuddyRivero]

Its really sad how some humans dont think in the harm they are making when throwing garbage to those beautifull places. Hope this will change soon.

[marachris1]

Exactly RuddyRC

There are other sites (the reservoir area is quite large) equally wonderful, and extremely important to many people. There is a lot of initiative and investment from local and state governments, but it is very important that the population engages and environmental care becomes everyone’s. I am doing a doctoral thesis on this topic and I work it in the context of top-down and down-top government governance.