Creative writing:- Maintaining a clean and healthy environment can promote good health.

INTRODUCTION

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A blissful day to my fellow healthy Steem steemians! Good to know you are all doing fine.

Today, I'm sharing some important tips that can promote good health by maintaining a clean and healthy environment.

The state of our environment or surroundings determines how healthy we can be to a large extent. Would you prefer to live in an environment where you have access to natural air or have enough ventilation, clean surroundings, beautiful flowers, flood water control systems? Or would choose to live in an environment with little or no ventilation, dirty surroundings, water stagnated, poor flood water control systems, and unbeautified environment? I know, Your choice is as good as mine!

It takes more than a wish to have and live in a healthy environment, just as you see me doing above. So it requires a concise effort to achieve the state of environment that we all can admire.

WHAT WE CAN DO TO ACHIEVE THE ENVIRONMENT WE ALL ADMIRE TO LIVE A HEALTHY LIFE

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• Clearing all bushes around the living areas:
  Make sure to constantly clear every bushy areas in your surroundings. This will keep dangerous animals away from the home. The presence of these animals close to our home will have serious negative health impact.

• Always ensure the water drainage system in your area is clean. This will make water to flow freely without any obstruction. Also don't throw wastes into the drainage system because it will obstruct the free flow of water and cause water stagnation. When the free flow of water is obstructed, it will deposit heeps of waste and littre the environment with dirts. The odor that comes from the dirts is dangerous to human health.

• Don't form dump sites close to your home or live close to dump sites.
  It is an unhealthy practice to form dump sites near homes or even living close dump sites.
  There is a high possibility of out break of diseases there.

• Plant only environmental friendly flowers or plants in your surroundings. This will not only beautify the environment, it will promote a healthy exchange of gass in the form of air between the plants and the people living there.

• On the side of governments, they should perform an environment impact assessment in order to checkmate the activities of business organizations, so as to reduce wastes been released into the environment in the course of production.

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH LAWS AND REGULATIONS CAN HELP TO ACHIEVE A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR A HEALTHY LIVING:

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Having a clean and healthy environment is achievable by means of enabling laws and regulations that people must abide by. Some of them can be:

• Environmental Impact Assessment law: A law such as this can be used to check if both the public and private business organizations are taking or considering the impact their business operations have on the environment

• Environmental sanitation laws: This law can empower Governments to schedule a date for regular national or state general clean up exercise. Defaulters of this law can be made to face jail terms or pay fine as the case may be.

• Law for prohibition of harmful waste:
  This can be used to stop the disposal, deposits or transportation of harmful wastes.

• Climate change laws to promote greengrowth and sustainable development. This can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the environment.

CONCLUSION

A healthy living is a product of Maintaining a clean and healthy environment.
A high number of outbreak of diseases recorded, comes from environmental pollution.

Maintaining a clean and healthy environment saves costs, prevents disease outbreak and adds beauty to the environment.

There should be enforcement of environmental laws to enable compliance.
This will contribute immensely in protecting the environment to achieve a healthy living.

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