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Field Trip to Koh Tao I had a field trip to Ko Tao in the Southern part of Thailand. The activities in the field trip include snorkeling, interview to local people about their life and water/waste management, visiting landfill site and reservoir.

Landfill Site
The landfill site landfill is located on top of the hill and you can see mountain of trashes on both sides of the road to the site. The waste sorting area is on the base of the hill: compared to the amount of the trash, the sorting place is very small and not properly equipped. Since it is a open landfill site, runoff and leachate can be very problematic for people living in downhill.

Reservoir
It is built on top of the hill. Road constructions and reservoir have caused severe land erosion around the area. To make matter worse, the land is loose and quite sandy which may cause the collapse the hill in the future. The erosion can affect greatly on the coral reef ecosystem.