If you were the minister of department of environmental affairs, how were you going to solve the problems brought by Earthquake in south Africa
Answers
Answer:
Let me tell you something about how natural phenomena like storms, earthquakes, etc. Is approached. They look at the return period.
To determine the return period, you look at the severity of the event and how long since the last event of this severity. Then it us concluded thatSeriously an event of such severity will only happen every soday many years.
Most buildings get designed for a fifty year return period and post disaster buildings like hospitals and fire stations typically for a hundred year return period.
Earthquakes vary quite a lot in intensity and they are spread out over South Africa.
Seriously, we have so few earthquakes, if you were the minister of environmental affairs and you were going to try and solve problems brought in by earthquakes, all you are going to do is waste taxpayer's money and neglect more important issues like the environmental impact of the drought and the dumping of sewerage that has not been properly treated into natural streams and rivers.
Seriously, if you were to launch an investigation into earthquakes, but you do nothing about the sewerage dumping that is happening at numerous municipalities, I would also start burning tyres.
To give you another example of return periods. The drought in the Western Cape is the worst in a hundred year meaning it has a return period of a hundred years, that is why we don't have desalination plants, because in all likelihood, we would probably only use them every hundred years.
If you were the minister of environmental affairs, with all this attention to earthquakes, the next meeting of parliament would include a motion of no confidence in the minister of environmental affairs.
Please stop trolling with this earthquakes in South Africa questions. It is not even fun downvoting the questions anymore.
If it is a school assignment your teacher gave you, please ask you teacher to do proper research about the assignments (s)he give you in the future.
Explanation: