[ #club100 ] Sanitation And How It Can Be Improved

Great to have you. I can't love you less. It is such a delight. How are you faring? I have great conviction that you are all fine and dandy. Hope your steem-life is on a great course. I am confident that you are enjoying it. A big thank you to the steemitblog for their wonderful innovation. I feel so honored to be a part of this initiative.

Image Source





Today I would like to share with you one germane aspect of hygiene that is sanitation . Sanitation is a part of our going and coming in but most people do not consider how relevant it is. If proper sanitation is not ensured, it can pose a lot of health risk to us. In this essay, we will get to know its impact on health and what the government and individuals can do to curb improper management of sanitation. I would like you to pay attention to my submission.

Sanitation is the process of keeping environment healthy, clean and hygienic to public health conditions.Treatment and disposal of human faecal matters, excreta and sewage is also a part of sanitation. Sanitation is also the study and use of clean and hygienic measures to improve ventilation, drainage, pure water supply, and disposal of solid waste.

Most times we ask ourselves why rubbers and waste materials are all around us? We find them choked in gutters and in town environment and important places. And the answer is, we humans are the cause of these waste materials that are seen around us. Our attention to sanitation is weak, therefore we choke our gutters that is meant for liquid waste with solid waste. We defecate around and anyhow and see no wrong in that. The right responsibility isn't provided therefore everybody does anything at anytime. This is common in most developing countries. Each and everyday, waste is increasing and each day, health issues are rising. This tells that improper sanitation has something to do with these sicknesses and illness that are becoming rampant. It is important to note that hygienic sanitation are key to protect public health.

Researches in Ghana proves that, most of towns in Ghana are occupied by waste materials. This attest the fact that, we eat, sleep and live with faecal matters. In Accra for instance, whenever it rains, because of poor sanitation, waste materials and faecal matters wash into the Oduna river and other water bodies around. These waste materials are the cause of the frequent floods that occur in the capital of Ghana. And these waste materials and faecal matters that wash into water bodies and rivers are treated for humans to use again.

The challenges to sanitation in countries are linked to the government's inability to create a proper disposable system and lack of proper management. Since there is population growth, facilities such us public toilet, disposable sites are in a threat. This breeds mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches which can affect the health of man if they settle on food.

Usually, in slums and overpopulated towns and cities in developing countries, sanitation suffers because they lack the right machinery to improve upon sanitation. In these areas, diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, worm infections are very common. Again because the inhabitants lack proper education, they treat sanitation anyhow.

What should the citizen and the government do then?

• The individual is the main focus if proper sanitation can be ensured. With a collective responsibility, individuals can police the environment to ensure that others do not drop wastes anyhow on the environment.

• Factories that dispose a lot of wastes must be checked to see if there is a proper disposal for the waste.

• People must be given proper education on the need to keep the environment clean and the threat filt can cause we as humans.

• Government must provide waste bins to collect waste from homes and also do the proper disposal when the bins get full.

• The government should mobilize with other agencies and individual citizens in order to clean the already waste materials that are chopped in gutters and in holes.

• Laws must be made to police the environment and serve as a check to ensure proper hygiene.

• Government must intensify recycling processes in the country and give proper orientation to individuals on how to go about waste materials.

• The government must provide enough public toilets and lactrines that have proper enclosure.

To conclude, it is the duty of every citizen to police the environment. We must all ensure that the deleterious canker of people are given immediate attention. The environment is ours to protect and for us to grow, go and glow, we must all act responsibly to ensure proper sanitation. Thank you

A big "thank you" for your visit, attention and support. Everybody's support is needed for a better community of steem. Keep sharing, keep supporting, ensure that your computations are exact to support the club initiatives. Steem on steemians.

Editors	Phone	Topic
Pixelab	Spark 4, Techno KC8	Sanitation

@juzkid loves ♥️ you all. It's me