| 英文摘要 |
Rivers are essential for various human activities. Due to fairly rapid population growth, industry society formation and land resource over-utilization, Rivers of Taipei City becomes the disposal site for wastewater and waste. Environmental problems are not confined to single area surrounding but can spread far and wide beyond political boundaries. Local resident involvement is central to environmental improvement, because local residents can have continuous long-term observation of environmental problems. To concern about environment is not enough, to make a movement is actually practical way.
The tasks of this project are: to encourage public participation in river patrol, to enhance the function of public nuisance mechanism, to promote more public report backs for pollution abatement. We also promote”Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program”. The program can facilitate public awareness and understanding of water quality issues and encourage shared responsibility for water resources protection. Trained volunteers can monitor local streams in an effort to water quality health and help identify and restore problem sites.
The goal of “River Patrol Plan” is to organize local residents for comprehensive volunteering water quality monitoring. If local residents can be motivated to offer a few hours of their leisure time to monitor the health of rivers, they might gain better understanding of local water resources. Besides, the river patrol team may band local communities together and let residents have place identification. Residents general are most familiar with their environmental surroundings and they may provide useful environmental information to local government.
Until now, there are 15 river patrol teams in Taipei City, with 299 team members. For river patrol management, we emphasize two mechanisms – “The Monthly Report on the Combat Effectiveness of Every Patrol Team”, “The Incentive Programs for the Patrol Teams”. The formal mechanism is to honor the team that scored the most points during a quarter. The purpose of latter mechanism is to encourage eager participation and to inspire self-improvement for river patrol teams.
Based on "Volunteer service law" made by Ministry of Interior, we trained 67 volunteers to gain formal qualification. Furthermore, we held 7 river clean up activities, 1 pledge assembly, 2 forums, 2 field trips, 2 training sessions and 2 other exchange activities.
Moreover, the work team regulates updates for the implementation results of the patrol teams on the “River Conservation Network” of “Eco Life”. Through this website, we also connect river patrol team with public. This project has completed 791 inspections, reported 3 pollution cases and 132 dirty messy places. We also published 700 copies of demonstration material (DM). The content of DM includes Taipei City river basin map with the geographic locations of water quality monitoring stations, Taipei City river patrol rule, simple water quality examination, point and non-point sources, and Taiwan water quality biotic index.
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