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Publicity and Water Pollution Improvement
Our research focuses on the citizens’ rights of being aware of the information about local water resources and the right to access to it. After collecting data and analyzing them, they demonstrate the positive correlation between the information transparency level and the degree of local water safety, which means that local water information publicity could improve the government to better conduct local water protection.
Eleanor Leung is a first-year art student from Vantage College UBC. She is interested in the sustainable issues about water, which is associated with the daily life base, and the water safety level is relevant for the drink water issue. Water as an essential resource that none can live without it. Eleanor cares about how individual behavior might impact on the local water resources.
Reta Wu is a first-year student at the University of British Columbia. She is from Chengdu where is surrounded by beautiful sights and landscapes. Growing up in such a place, she develops a wide range of interests, especially traveling. She has a big passion for environment-related subjects. Meanwhile, she cares about recent climate changing, environmental degradation issues, and nature's interactions with human society. Such interest is one of the biggest reasons bringing her to do this water safety research.
Farnaz K. Ravari is in her first year at University of British Columbia and she wants to major in computer science. She has been passionate in this field even more in her high school years and as she progressed to university, she wanted to combine that aspect which she loves with her and to make the research process an interesting subject for her. She decided to choose water pollution as her research topic since she can analyze the data with her group as well as going into depth about an important topic, expanding her knowledge and experience.
Rino Komata is a first-year student at the University of British Columbia. Rino was born and raised in Tokyo and has spent some time in New Zealand and Canada, having life-changing experiences there. Discovering a whole new level of global and diverse world views encouraged her to pursue a goal for achieving a better sustainable future such as international development, environmental conservation/management including water pollution.
