Aksjon Jærvassdrag ( The Jæren water act ) has a lot of information concerning biodiversity and water quality. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there is an English page so all information is in Norwegian only.
For those of you concerned with water quality i recommend these reports :
Rapport RF - 2003/060 for good maps about watersheds and water pollution sources.
Rapport IRIS 2009/037 for the latest update on the water quality situation.
It seems like Orre is subject to one of the worst situation concerning nutrient loading from agriculture in the whole of Norway. There are also reports about sitings of bluegreen algae on a large scale - also called Cyanobacteria. Doing some fast research about Cyanobacteria helped me find this interesting article.
See you all tomorrow at school.
Anders
Hei Anders
ReplyDeleteThat Aksjon Jærvassdraget is a volunteer organisation says a lot on how little significance Jæren authorities and practitioners puts on the ecology of water systems. It has to do with how the Jæren mindfield threats a series of aspects, an attitude that can be charcterized by the three monkeys, dont see, dont hear etc.