Question

Discuss five effect of poor sanitation​

Answer 1

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Poor Sanitation;

Poor sanitation is when people who live in a particular setting don't have access to safe water, good sewage system and live in a dirty environment.

Effects of Poor sanitation;

• Poor sanitation and waste management create conditions that may encourage flies and other disease vectors.
• Environmental impacts of poor sanitation and waste management at a local level include pollution of land and watercourses, the visual impact of litter, and bad odours.
• Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio and exacerbates stunting.
• Poor sanitation reduces human well-being, social and economic development due to impacts such as anxiety, risk of sexual assault, and lost educational opportunities.
• Diseases related to poor sanitation and water availability causes many sicknesses like cholera, diarrhoea, malaria and typhoid. All these diseases greatly affect the health of students. Students cannot even learn properly because they are sick.

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