Greetings To All! Myriad Environmental Problems and the way forward
Environmental Problems
Environmental Problem
Environmental Problems
Problems
Environment Problems
Environmental Problems
The Borough of New Kru Town
Environmental Problem s
There is no effective garbage collection system-communities area filthy There is no functional sanitary landfill There is no incinerator for medical and other hazardous wastes Public defecation and urination Major air pollution problems Depopulating Monrovia
Major public health/sanitary crisis as a result Contaminated water bodies Over 84 percent of the population drink unsafe water For every 1000 life birth died in the process Mortality rate among pregnant women is soaring About 2300 children died each year from related environmental problem (malaria) Life expectancy has declined to 41 year according to recent studies
The Way Forward Empowering Liberia’s EPA Massive environmental educational awareness and community empowerment/ institutional capacity building Respecting and enforcing existing environmental laws Providing sanitary landfill/incinerator
How can we help the gov’t in post war era Constructive engagement with the gov’t and other institutions for help Galvanizing needed resources to help communities alleviate environmental problem