AGUA Vistior

On Friday, October 19, 2007, we had a speaker come in from AGUA, this is a organization trying to protect the aquifer. When class first began she had a slideshow presentation that she showed to the class, and she explained the slides. She explained to the class what it is she does for the AGUA organization, which is representing cases to the city council of San Antonio. She also showed us some slides about developments being built on or around the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. This is where water is put back into the underground aquifer. Building on these recharge zones is a little hazardous due to the fact of pollution, anything on the ground in the recharge zone will end up back in the aquifer. She also showed us some maps of where the recharge zone is located at. She also showed us some maps of where they wanted to put these developments at. Which in some cases, in my opinion is a little on the crazy side, because they want to develop right over the recharge zone. When she finished with here presentation. She had the class break up into groups, and she had us present a mock presentation, after we talked to our group, each group explained their version on the case and gave it a yes or a no, it was a good learning experience. I learned a great deal of credible information about the Edwards Aquifer from her presentation. She also gave me a better understanding on what the recharge zones are and what the purpose of the zones are.