Data Retrieval Chart

DATA RETRIEVAL CHART Importance / Economic Values | Problems / Challenges | Effect to the Economy | Government Programs | 1. Water resources provide us aquatic creatures like fish that serves as our food which is a basic need. | Some fisherman use dangerous fishing methods like muro-ami and dynamite fishing. | Red tide decreases the quality of the fish that we catch. | R.A. 1751 – Anti illegal fishing. | 2. Fishing makes a general improvement in living standards because of the profits it earned | The garbage that are thrown in the water makes the it polluted. | The pollution in the water kills our aquatic resources | In each municipality, they create policies that prohibits the throwing of garbage in that area.Ex: They will pay a specific amount if they will be caught violating. | 3. Water resources are used in various ways including direct consumption, agricultural irrigation, fisheries, hydropower, industrial production, disposal and treatment of sewage | Only 30% of the worlds fresh water is in liquid form therefore there is only limited amount of water that is accessible for human use. | There has been government controversy over the privatization of water world wide. | The international conference on water and environment clearly expressed the need for applying economic tools and principal to water because according because according to them water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognized as an economic goal. | | | | |

4. Water has supplies, food and shelter for various aquatic resource | Incoming financial burden on users to pay for clean water has social and political implications | Lack of control on pollution and consumption of water could lead to greater scarcity as developing countries pursue industrial growth. | The Dublin Conference asserted that we should recognize just the basic right of a human beings to have access to clean water at an affordable price. | 5. The fishing industries