The 9th Ikenkoukankai was held in Ibaraki

On Oct. 3rd in Tsuchiura city of Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan, Kasumigauwa River office of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Ministry opened the 9th Ikenkoukankai, a workshop and hearing. This meething was started Dec. 15th of 2002 in order to consider the nature of the Kanto-region's largest, Japan's second largest lake, Lake Kasumi. There were topics including water level, biogeocenosis, properties of water, industry/ tourism, educatioin for environment, citizen participation and so on. And this time, people's most interested subject, properties of water, was discussed again, and the meeting was entitled "improve and maintain water quality on Lake Kasumi." A former DAg of Tokyo University, Toshio Tabuchi, reported the hints of improvement of its water quality. He pointed rapid decrease of lake's self-cleansing mechanism and pollutional load. This hearing's data and past advices can be looked on the website of Kasumigauwa River office.

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Posted by DODGE at October 4, 2004 01:14 PM in Natural Environment