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Tomorrow could be too late for acting, we mustunderstand that our tomorrow has already arrived

Jaliscos environmetal record

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INTRODUCTIONToday it is necessary to take care of the

environment. Many changes havehappened since the industrial age.Progress and the use of natural resourceswithout control have degraded theenvironment.

In big cities cars, factories and consumeractivity produce a lot of pollutants in air,

water and the soil.Cars and industries produce atmosphericpollutants like carbon monoxide, sulphurdioxide, oxides and particulates.

The water is contaminated by organicmatter, detergent, and metals that areused in homes and factories.

The garbage produced mainly byinhabitants in the cities is a big problem todispose of in adequate places.

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The residue, paper, plastics, wood, glass and metals, are possibleto be recycled. Actually in Mexico only 30% of the residues arerecycled, the other 70% are disposed of without controlproducing contaminated soil. One of the residues that is a big

problem is used tires because people who dont use the tireanymore, throw them away on the street, in rivers and otherplaces. Some people accumulate tires and many times they areburned producing pollution. A better way to reduce the tires is toburn them in cement kilns but that produces many pollutants toounless it has an adequate emission control.

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The responsibility for this problem, should beshared by inhabitants and the authorities. Thegovernment has the responsibility to give to thepeople public services; one of them is the collection

of waste. Therefore, cleaning the cities and handlingsolid waste is a worry the authorities have to solve.The crowding in urban areas and the change ofconsumer habits are increasing the waste.

In the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone there are four

big landfills for the deposit of garbage (paper,plastic, metals, organic residues and others) thatthe population has generated. These landfills do notadequately meet the requirements for appropriatelycontrolling the garbage.

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In general, the strategy to follow, to reach anadequate handling of waste, involves the participation

of government, industry, commerce, but first societyshould have information that permits them to knowthe alternatives available to reduce the impact ofwaste on the environment.

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The major problems about industrialpollution are the generation of emissions

into the atmosphere produced by theincomplete combustion of used oil,solvents, and other caustic materials. Thetype of activity in the factories is important.Foundries produce a large quantity of

pollutants because of the need to use a lotof fuel in the smelting process. Anotherexample is the cement industry. The kilnsconsume huge amounts of combustiblematerials such as used tires (this is1,000,000 per kiln per year and basically

this means just 20% of the total fuel) ,used oil and other toxic material. Whenthey dont have efficient emission controls,they release pollutants harmful to health.

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Air pollution has significantly declined overall inurban areas during the last ten years. There isevidence of a reduction of acute respiratorydiseases in children under five.

Jalisco has adopted air quality managementprogrames that address pollution by the industry,service and transport sectors as well as

environmental recovery.

Reducing the lead and sulphur content of motorvehicle fuels contributed to the reduction of someemissions from mobile sources.

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Significant efforts have been made toimprove hazardous waste management inMexico. Treatment and disposal capacity isincreasing steadily and rapidly.

A system to monitor hazardous wastegeneration, treatment and disposal has beenestablished and its coverage is expanding.

Work to identify contaminated sites has

begun, wtih this

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Its important to know about the authority here in Jaliscoresponsable for taking care of the environment: the bodyin charge for any ecological problem is SEMADES, itsmission is to establish public policies in order to preventand control pollution levels

SEMADES has 4 principal objectives:

Institutional Training

Environmental Actualization

Lobbying for state commitment Ecological regulation and preservation

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Principal problems in guadalajarasmetropolitan zone

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With this information it is obvious that Jaliscosprincipal problems are:

Population

Land and water

In 1985 due to the earthquake that Mexico citysuffered, many people from there decided to cometo Guadalajara and the population explosion wasfelt immediately.

Even though this is just a little part of the hugeproblem, nowadays we can see how theGuadalajara Metropolitan Zone has grown withoutany control.

How many times have we seen new colonieseverywhere? They are suddenly built and theworst thing is that sometimes those newneighbourhoods dont even have services likeaccess roads, so that produces bottle necks duringrush hours increasing pollution.

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ACTION PLAN

We can find a publication on November13 in the Jaliscos Official Newspaperabout the winter plan which is focusedon the preventive actions to improve airquality in Miravalle zone (which is by no

means one of the most damaged zonesin GMZ).

This plan is going to be applied from

Nov 15 to March 15,2008 and we willmention just the principal actions inevery area:

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AREA ACTION

Transport Synchronizing traffic lightsalong principal Avenues inMiravalle

Eliminating unnecesary orunauthorized speed bumps.

Creating and promoting carpooling

Health Working on a vaccinecampaign oriented to themost vulnerable sectors(children and elderly)

Schools must change their

schedules (they shouldmodify break times after11:00 am)

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Based on this information we might think thatour environment is just a governmentalresponsability but we must all shoulder theburden and realize that weve been damagingthe place we live in.

It isnt too late to start taking actions byourselves if we really want to.

AREA ACTION

Urban Order Having an efficient tirecollection in order to avoid

people burning themIndustry Cement industry located in

Miravalle Zone must replaceup to 10% of conventionalcombustibles to alternatecombustibles (tires, used oil,

etc)

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Jaliscoauthorities are now opening their eyes and

theyre trying to develop the culture we need in order tocreate better environmental conditions to live in

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Bringing it home