Ana+Domagas+on+Water+Resources+Management

The seminar gave an eye-opener for students to be aware of drastic climate changes that are

happening around us. Environmental degradation is severely limiting our resources. It was shown how

such changes take place by pictures and graphs that are measured over a time interval. From 1990-2000

deforestation has spread throughout Indonesia and it was predicted that by 2024 the country will be

covered by various settlements. In the Philippines, overpopulation and water resources where the major

elements that is predicted to radically change in the next few years.

The speaker, Mr. Widodo, mentioned that water resources management is now being

implemented as a contributor to solving environment degradation. He also emphasized that this is

specifically important for our country because of the floods that has been a constant calamity in various

areas of the Philippines. He showed bar charts wherein it depicts the amount of rainfall every month

of the year. In some months, the amount of rainfall is heaviest. He stressed that we can convert these

water resource, to be used in the months were rainfall is lightest. With that, we are able to save our

scarce resources.

There are 3Rs that is very well-known in the book of solving environment degradation.

These popular Rs stand for Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Mr. Widodo pointed out that by using these

principles, we can address the problems of climate change. He also gave us certain tips such as the

use of permanent bags instead of plastics, reducing the eating of meat, use of natural light instead of

electricity, optimizing the tire pressure of our cars, taking out our chargers from sockets when they are

not in use, and many others.