ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN IZMIR

By Paula Andrea Henao Ariza

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Personally, I think one of the environmental problems in Izmir is poisoning rivers, we are finding fishes on the surface of the river because of the fabrics allow their pipelines going directly to the river without any filter, even it has been forbidden by government; moreover, there are people who do not have so much education and they are throwing the garbage in the street which by time is going inside the different rivers, to my mind, people pretend others to clean instead of them due to less education, being lazy to put the garbage in the right place, trying to ignore the environmental problem or simply they think it is not serious thing. In spite of government and different companies are building filters to make it cleaner.

 

Another environmental problem is that Izmir is plain and people are building over fertile soil, as a result people cannot find foods easily, therefore they are going to different villages around the city to grow it up. It is not going well about future because they will suffer absence of foods or they must grow food in artificial way with hormones, consequently these artificial foods are not healthy for people, we would eat chemical foods getting health problems in the future. It is clear that government does not divide money for different projects to improve and organize the infrastructure and fertile soil, they are spending lands with concrete and factories what makes to think the situation will get worse.

And eventually, different organizations or entities are cutting trees to get the stones from the ground, it is used to make railways, buildings and the roads. Finally, as projects government is creating nuclear plants what will make a problematic situation in the city and all Turkey. In my opinion, it comes absurd because this country has already known and applied the clean or renewable energy, such as; solar energy and wind power, it is not logic building nuclear plants, if there is a leak where the chemical liquid is moving by groundwater very fast and going to each homes, all people might be in risk, what means it will make an environmental disaster.