How Do We Connect?

• The issues of pesticide use, water pollution, and dolphin slaughter in Taiji are inherently connected to the use of chemicals in water.

• The actions needed to reverse the negative effects of pesticides; water contamination and dolphin slaughter are time sensitive. If actions are not to be taken soon, our environment will suffer the degradation of water resources.

• The connection between water pollution and pesticides is a substantial one in that pesticides contamination contributes to water pollution water bodies (oceans, lakes, streams, etc)

• In the legislation aspect of our issues, laws have been put in place offering solutions to water pollution and pesticides, such as regulation the pesticides that are in the food we eat every day as well as regulation of pollutants in surface water.
  
• This leads to a deadly chain that organisms in the oceans are living in an environment polluted with chemicals, which in turn are the food of bigger mammals such as dolphins. Since the dolphins are eating organisms that are contaminated with chemicals, their mercury content increases which leads to adverse consequences to the Japanese people who consume dolphin meat.(BIODEGRADATION)