Lake Winnipeg Persuasive Essay

In order to address this serious issue, environmental groups and the government have tried to embark on awareness campaigns to ensure individuals understand how they might contribute to solving the issues. The general public has been encouraged to use phosphate free products in order to reduce their contribution to the problem. The Manitoba Government also acknowledged the issue with Lake Winnipeg and has begun implementing a three hundred and twenty million dollar plan over the next 5 years. The objective of the plan is to reduce and ultimately eliminate the blue green algae poisoning of Lake Winnipeg. The plan will focus on addressing three main areas. The first deals with drainage issues and what people are draining into the waters. The second area of focus is better management of the Wetlands in order to prevent their deterioration or removal to ensure that chemicals that make their way into the water system are filtered out by the wetlands. The third focus is improving flood protection so that chemicals not intended for the lake are not picked up by floodwaters and carried into the lake. The government is also considering implementing a law that will prevent people from using pesticides in their gardens. The ultimate goal is to move people toward becoming more organic. The government however is not implementing this law …show more content…
A second challenge is finding enough money to successfully deal with the issue of reducing pollutants that flow into the lake. It is believed that in order to successfully achieve the clean up of the lake money will have to be raised privately in addition to government funding. A third challenge is gaining cooperation from the agriculture industry in terms of supporting regulation to control runoff from the hog and cattle