What Can I Do With My Major?by Rosa Domingos | 20-08-2018 21:39 |
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 This month?s theme was a huge blindside for me, but also it noticeably gave many of us the opportunity to really express what we want to achieve in the coming future and how we got about having a soft heart for the environment to begin with. Well members, here is my take of what I can do with my major: It all started in Grade 9 when I noticed how many people didn?t have access to portable water. The fact that after 14 years of being out of my birthplace, still decent and the most important resource known to mankind had not made easily accessible to the locals. Not only that, but the water that they were getting was salty and had to be boiled. When getting home, I started researching about the alternative means of which the locals of Pomfret (my birth place) could get water. since Pomfret is a secluded village (and two hours away from the nears city) I thought of groundwater. It is the most simplest alternative to the water shortage problem. Since then from 2014 to 2016 I did my Bachelor of Science majoring Geology, because one needs to understand the subsurface environment in order to anticipate where the body of water may lie, and also the structural feature that may benefit or discredit a locality if a groundwater exploration in initiated. Speaking about groundwater, in 2017, I then undertook a Honours degree programme on Geohydrology that mainly focused on groundwater movement, aquifer properties and groundwater pollution and modelling. With this, I could integrate the geology knowledge and with my groundwater theoretical and practical understanding. I then did a mini-research project the water quality in Promfret and what I found was astonishing and not in a good way. The groundwater was present in high volumes to assist with the water shortage but the water was very must highly concentrated with elements over the normal drinking standards. This was due to the underground geology and surface human activities (such as farming and active industries). This gave me a clear understanding of the gravity of the problem and also what the government should be doing to less and mitigate the issue. I currently work at the Department of Water and Sanitation as a Graduate Trainee: Geohydrologist and I am also planning to start my Masters study programme. My major opened my eyes as to the possibilities that can come through for this world, how societies can be aided. With my major, I help track the quality of water on a monthly basis, help validate why groundwater is THE alternative water resource we should actually tape into and, and help children understand that water is a priceless commodity. My major help me understand the dynamics that control or affect the groundwater system and I in turn use that to make others aware.
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