In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating, and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes litt

The author concludes in this argument that the city government should allot more money in this year’s budget to riverside recreation as it is the favorite recreation of Mason city residents based on few assumptions which he makes are unsubstantiated.

The first assumption the author makes is water sports being the favorite recreational activities of Mason city residents, where he does not give any statistical evidence showing the number of people being surveyed and their interests in playing water sports or just watching them. Even if the survey shows more number of denizen’s favorite recreational activity is water sports it is not clear whether the survey was conducted in the counties near the Mason river.It is more likely the counties near the river are to benefit from cleaning of the river.

As the residents, have been complaining about the water quality and the smell of the water, state has announced to the cleaning of river. The bad quality and smell of water may be for several reasons like industrial wastes, domestic wastes may be dumped in the river and there may be no proper regulation for maintenance of the river. So strict rules have to be implemented to keep the water clean in near future.
The number of residents living in area near Mason River may be very few and devoting more money would not make sense. There may be other emergency need which requires to be addressed with more funds than maintenance of a river for recreation sports.

This argument could be strengthened if the author provides more details of the survey like the number residents, their interest in water sports participating or watching, the cause of the smell and bad quality of water. It can be made strong further reporting if similar increase of river water for water in other states have improved after increasing funds in the budget.