Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Environmental and social impact assessment Name of student Name of University Author note
1 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Contents Task 6: Environmental and social impact assessment.....................................................................3 Task 6.1: Environmental and social impacts...................................................................................3 References........................................................................................................................................7
2 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Task 6: Environmental and social impact assessment A constructionand managementof water reservoir requiresvariousactivitiesand operations to ensure that the water reservoir functions properly and negative effects are reduced largely. The construction activities include manufacturing of equipments and machineries, preparation of site, management of civil works and finishing the activities by assembling the mechanical and electrical components to meet the requirements of the system effectively. Due to the construction activities, both social and environmental impacts are created and even during the management of a water storage reservoir (Dixon et al., 2013). Few social and environmental impacts include high production of waste materials from the construction site, cutting of trees, polluting the water, creating lots of noise, cultural heritage oftheplaceneartotheconstructionsiteorwaterstoragereservoir,crushingand homogenization, transportation of raw materials and resources, etc. All these activities could result in harming the ecological balance in nature as well as create pollution that can result in making an unhealthy environment where people would have to live in the future. On the other hand, the water storage reservoir has created some good social and environmental impacts such as management of biodiversity, control of pollution, managing safety of dam, empowerment, reduction of poverty and even maintain good values to preserve the cultural diversity of the place too (Haddeland et al., 2014). Task 6.1: Environmental and social impacts ItemsImpact descriptionProposedmitigation measures
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