Environmental Quality II

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ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY II

INTRODUCTION: Maintaining environmental health is important to our well-being. In the last lesson, we were able to learn the advantages of a healthy environment and the disadvantages of an unhealthy environment. In today’s lesson, we will focus on ways to maintain a healthy environment.

Ways to Maintain a Healthy Environment

Maintaining our environment keeps it healthy. The following are ways to do so.

• Planting of trees (Afforestation)
• Conservation of natural resources (i.e. wise use of natural resources)
• Promotion and maintenance of game reserves and parks.
• Having an effective waste management system
• Engaging in general environmental sanitation such as cleaning of drainage, clearing of bushes etc.
• Having sanitary inspectors to monitor and inspect this environmental sanitation from time to time.
• Provision and maintenance of social infrastructure that will help to maintain a healthy environment. E.g. good road network, gutters and drainage facilities and culverts.
• Discourage deforestation

Agencies involved in Environmental management are

• Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA)
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
• Ministry of Environment (MOE)

Materials needed to Maintain a Healthy Environment

• Brush for scrubbing
• Broom for sweeping
• Cutlass for clearing bushes and grasses.
• Disinfectants for killing germs on floors, toilets and bathrooms
• Incinerators for dumping and burning of refuse.

EVALUATION:

• State two ways to maintain a healthy environment
• Mention three human activities that affect our environment.

ASSIGNMENT

Copy and complete the table below