Services Of The River

Question 1

Provisioning services

Answer 1

• This had to do with the maeteiral benefits or products from nature that human beings can obtain from the ecosystem that surround them for consumption or use
-Rivers provide people with freshwater supply for drinking and other domestic, inudtrial and agricultureall uses
-Rivers provide people with food e.g. fish

Question 2

Supporting services

Answer 2

• Services necessary for teh production of all other ecosystem
• Those that help teh production of teh erest of teh environmental services
-Rivers contribute to teh rainage basin hydrological processes that supply freshwater
-Rivers provide habitats for flora and fauna and supports biodiversity of species

Question 3

Regulation Services

Answer 3

• Benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem services and ecological processes and improve or make life possible
-Rivers can regulat the quality of freshwater through drainage as in hydrological processes
-Rivers can regulate floods through pocesses of erosion, transportation and deposition of sediments on their channels.

Question 4

Cultural services

Answer 4

• Cultural services are non-material benefits more related to the spiritual well-being or enrichment
-Rivers provide spaces for recreation such as angling and kayaking as well as hiking along river trails
-Rivers provide opportunities for appreciation of nature, to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of teh landscape and teh biodiversity of flora and fauna.

Question 5

Cultural services

Answer 5

• Cultural services are non-material benefits more related to the spiritual well-being or enrichment
-Rivers provide spaces for recreation such as angling and kayaking as well as hiking along river trails
-Rivers provide opportunities for appreciation of nature, to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of teh landscape and teh biodiversity of flora and fauna.