ESS

Ksenia

Ideas: 1. to look at life expectancy and living conditions of people from different background living near West Lake 2 Find out what local people think about the water pollution and tall building around West Lake

Method of setting experiment: interview

Equipments: 1. ready list with questions 2. pen/pencil 3. paper 4. Vietnamese speaking person (someone, who could help me with translation)

The purpose of the ESS part was to estimate what locals and foreign people think about the water pollution in the West Lake, by interviewing them. The survey showed that local people don’t view water from Tay Ho Lake as polluted; they use it for cooking and personal needs. Fishermen make their main income from it. However, foreigners believe that it is the source of filth and diseases. Most of foreigners would never eat seafood from it.

__Travelling:__ once a year to the south of Vietnam __Transport:__ 4 motorbikes || __University:__2/3 children __Travelling:__ once a year to the south of Vietnam __Transport:__ 3 motorbikes || __University__:2/2 children __Travelling:__ 2-3 times a year anywhere in the world __Transport:__ 2 motorbikes, 1 car || __University__:3/3 children __Travelling:__ 3-4 times a year anywhere in the world __Transport:__ 1 motorbike, 1 car || **As a result:**
 * Life expectancy and conditions of people living near West Lake from different background**
 * |||| Vietnamese |||| Foreigner ||
 * Name: || Mr. Nguyen Van Nam || Mrs. Le Thi Lam. || Mr. Carlos Vuillemin (Spanish) || Mrs. Anne du Bourg (French) ||
 * Age: || 49 years old || 72 years old || 36 || 54 ||
 * Number of people live in household: || 9 || 6 || 4 || 2 ||
 * Number of kids || 4 (2 girls/ 2 boys) || 3 (2 girls/ 1 boy) || 2 || 3 ||
 * Death rate in the family: || 85 years old || 80 years old || 75 || 86 ||
 * Annual household income in U.S. dollars ($USD): || $80,000 - $90,000 || $50,000 - $60,000 || $110,000 - $120,000 || $90,000 - $95,000 ||
 * Extras: || __University:__2/4 children
 * Metier (of the family): || * Fishing
 * Field (growing vegetables, flowers for sell) || * Running a café for foreigners
 * Fishing || Work for the foreign company || pensioner ||
 * **What local people think of:** ||
 * Pollution of the lake || Tall wealthy buildings around West Lake ||~  ||~   ||
 * * Sensitive topic (a lot of interviewees refused talk about it)
 * Some local people, who eat dead fish (no rain -> fish run out of the lake for more oxygen -> die) and seafood from the lake, experience food poisoning. (according to local newspaper- //Vnexpress//)
 * Local people use the water from West Lake for cooking and shower || * Local people welcome and benefit from foreign neighbors:
 * 1) Have more job opportunities, like housekeeping, babysitting
 * 2) Run own business like cafes, small shop for foreigners, as customers
 * 3) Can build the house for foreigners to rent
 * Their income increases
 * Used to be more quite in the past ||