agonizes "Tominé reservoir?
A body can be harmful if conditions permit. That's probably why large ecologists as Margalef and Odum, explained the pollution as "a resource that is where it should not (or where they should be but in such quantity that causes problems). Thus, in those balanced lake ecosystem, such as the hyacinth plant is harmless, but when circumstances conducive that colonize the water plant (as happened decades ago, Muna Dam), the aforementioned hyacinth is transformed into a vampire: a real murderer of ponds. Therefore, should address what happens in these days where the hyacinth Tominé steadily gaining ground. "Approaching the death of another body of water? Will Tominé one second Muna? Find out please! ... Many of us
Bogota ever leverage the rich reservoir of Muna as resorts and entertainment spot. From my childhood, for example, I recall with pleasure the occasions when I accompanied my father to fish, or better to see fish in their banks. Also, keep in my memory some opportunities that, together with a guy in second grade, I attended the races and other events in one of the yacht clubs at that time there working. Sun, silver fish and a water mirror lens are my childhood recollections, perhaps distorted and magnified by the inadequate capacity of a six or fewer years to specify dimensions in space and time. Today, in the year 2005, already well grown and with more than twelve years as a teacher in a university environment in the capital, moves me to remember because a mixture of laziness and lack of ecological consciousness long ago that turned this idyllic spot on a sewer which case the potential travelers take a look when going to or coming from the capital of Colombia on the road to Fusagasugá, Girardot and Melgar. This look is "in whom we reach to witness the dawn of its golden age Muña-report mixture of pity and disgust, but mostly horror when you think that instead of retrieving the environmental wonders that this site had, the new times have have witnessed how other bodies of water near Bogotá, and important for its people, dying amid the indifference or impotence of those who have kindly notice.
Such is the case with Tomine.
a couple of months ago, some friends and I visited the municipality in Cundinamarca Guatavita and horrified the relentlessly warned that the water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) has invaded the reservoir and hampers and, gradually, water sports and boating tourism. A few inquiries with the neighbors we were enough to confirm that the overwhelming growth of floating weed that began just a few months ago (late 2004, maybe) due to pumping to the dam (it remains to be seen whether by individuals or staff any public entity) of wastewater with high nutrient concentration that brought the first strains of the weed and that by virtue of their biochemical characteristics facilitated the infestation of the reservoir by tiny plants and bushes harmful aquatic as indeed happened shortly with own hyacinth. All under certain well-known process by environmentalists and by them called "eutrophication."
Since then, and more with the role of ethics that requires college students to teach some love for the environment with the purpose of sounding alarmist or cause panic, I tried unsuccessfully to notify the respective agencies (CAR, Aqueduct, etc. ) and the media. Because of that this column is a call to the appropriate relief for the lagoon. Always appreciated the education one of his writings gave Miami Herald columnist, Leonard Pitts Jr., his readers, when one pointed out that things will have to import even give a damn, and that it ("damn", "radish", "fuck", or as they prefer to call it), is the difference among the ten thousand who saw something and did not act, and that (in my humble Pitts says the English translation), turned his back and at least wrote a letter.
Of course, my observations may be oversized (more like me), but in light of my modest ecological concepts cultivated for years, guess what Tominé holds a doctor of lakes and ponds, in the absence of such professional-type could well be called "Hippocratic Facies" as medical science called the characteristic appearance which generally factions close to the dying patient. Above, anyone can confirm this by visiting the New Pier Guatavita, then, (and though the mountains of stacked hyacinth roots on the banks attest to some friendly and valuable efforts to rid the scourge of the dam) is an obvious difficulty with recreational boats entering or leaving port. Urge
avoid an ecological disaster as those involving Fúquene, where waste resulting from farm fertilizers favored, more or less similar to that announced for Tominé here, the irreversible pollution of the lagoon on the other aquatic weeds, in that case the elodea (Egeria densa) - or by the aforementioned Muna, once a haven of boaters and fishermen and now transfigured by the hyacinth that covers it (unfortunately for the nearby town of Sibaté) in foul swarming of mosquitoes.
must act soon. Environmental authorities have to remove the hyacinth from the reservoir (tons of organic matter that can be used, for example, as compost for growing mushrooms or industrial scale), and the only viable way of making money it is perhaps the work of extracting water plant (the powers Industrial Design of Bogotá, for example, could collaborate with a contest to inquire about the possible uses of the fiber from the root the bush for the development of objects.) Otherwise - and recognize how much joy my mistake to be the case! - Tominé die.
(*) alftecumseh@yahoo.com
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