POLLUTION; AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD || Week 08, Edition 01

Hello and welcome to my page. I'm @daniky and here is my entry to the weekly featured content for week 8 edition 1. This post is in response to the question asked, stating that;

"What are the major causes of pollution in your area? Are they vehicles, industries, or just humans? Suggest ways in which this can be rectified."

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Pollution has become a normal hazard in Nigeria. This is simply the release of harmful substances into the environment which can be toxic to the human's health as well. Pollution are in types which include

• Air pollution
• Land pollution
• Water pollution
• Noise pollution

Major Causes of Pollution

• Air pollution: causes include smoke or carbonmonoxide from burning tyres/bushes/fossil fuels, tear gas, dust, explosives, fumigants etc

• Land pollution: causes include organic manure, sewage (biodegradable waste effluents from the body e.g faces, urea, mucus), discharge of refuse dumps etc

• Water pollution: causes include industrial oil spillage, discharge of harmful chemicals into river/water bank, sewage etc

• Noise pollution: Noise from a grinding machine within the environment, noise from neighbouring generators, nearby railways, aeroplanes, helicopter and constant movement of motor vehicles and trailers etc

MAJOR CAUSES OF POLLUTION IN MY AREA

The predomant causes of pollution at my area include;

1. Noise: which include noise from generators within the environment, moving aircrafts, moving vehicles and trailers. Reason for this is due to the fact that i resides along the airport road and closer to where moving vehicles are constantly passing by. When ever there's power outage, my neighbours are so fast in bringing out their loud-noised generator to power their appliances till they decide to put it off which can be really disturbing and may cause headache or migraine in some cases.

2. Air pollution: Burning of bushes and refuse dumps. The environmental protection board are lackadaisical these days as they visits some areas of the city and leave others behind. This results to the persistent call for waste discharge personnels or truck pushers within the environment to help discharge our refuse dumps at an agreed cost and to my surprise, most of these refuses are later dumped and burnt in a nearby road by these truck pushers and this is really an issue to the environment.

3. Water Pollution: Most sealed pure water these days are contaminated while many people are quite oblivious of this. Many pure water merchants sells these contaminated water to people who taught the pure water is better than their borehole water. Many at times this pure water tastes badly or sandy and this has resulted to many individuals battling with diverse health conditions such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentary, typhoid fever and so on.

4. Land Pollution: What i also consider a challenge here is the dusty wind from the bad road network. Especially roads that were contracted to big companies to be developed and later left halfway by the developers.This has been a challenge as many individuals suffers dry cough, pneumonia, allergies etc from this kind of issue.

WAYS POLLUTION CAN BE RECTIFIED IN MY ENVIRONMENT

1. The use of renewable energy power (solar power systems) should be deployed to prevent the use of noisy generators.

2. Proper measures should be taken to kick against bush burning. Planting of good trees as wind breakers should be encouraged as well.

3. Unauthorised pure water companies should be permanently shut down by the federal government and more drinkable borehole water should be produced. Oilspillage should be discouraged to prevent suffocating acquatic lives too.

4. Construction companies not able to carryout their assignment judiciously should be closed down total while capable ones should be contracted to develop poor roads around the main and suburb regions as well.

From my above points i hope you're able to know the major cause of pollution in my area and ways to rectify them. This is my entry to the weekly feature contest for week 8 edition 1. If you're new to this platform and intend to participate, kindly visit here for more update.

Thank you for your time and do have a wonderful moment

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