Contest Challenge: Environmental Hygiene - Your activity

in STEEM FOR BETTERLIFE2 years ago
Greetings Steemians. Welcome to another beautiful week of season 5. Hope your day is going splendid. Here is my participation in the week's contest about "Environmental Hygiene and my activities"

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INTRODUCTION

The word hygiene is derived from a greek word "hygieinos" which mean healthful or related to health.
Hygiene is a practice or series of practice a person take to ensure cleanliness, maintain the health of a subject or object and to promote its life.

Types of hygiene

Personal Hygiene
Personal Hygiene is any practice done on the external body to ensure health and cleanliness. It can be in the oral cavity (dental hygiene), on the skin, hand washing, pendicure and manicure etc.

Food Hygiene
Food Hygiene is the cleanliness done before, during and after the preparation of a meal. It also involve taking care of the kitchen utensils to prevent from contamination by bacteria and other germs which can lead to food poisoning and as worst as death

Environmental Hygiene
This is the focus point of today's topic. It will be good to know that when environment is mentioned, we don't just mean the land(lithosphere), we also talk about the water bodies (hydrosphere) and also the air(atmosphere)

Environmental Hygiene is a democratic and practical way of ensuring the environment is clean, inhabitable and healthy for the survival of a human, animal and plant. This goal is achieved by carrying out environmental sanitation. Since there are millions of micro organisms living in our environment, we want to make sure we keep our environment clean so as to prevent these bacteria from getting to us

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MY ACTIVITIES TO ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE

1.. Cleaning the water bodies/ Drainage

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Few months ago, I joined a voluntary sanitation crew in Lagos. On one of the work days, we cleaned the popular 3rd Mainland Bridge and the water bodies.

You can see how dirty the water looks. The aquatic lives are in danger as well as the people

2.. Efficient and Effective Waste Disposal
Another of my activity in ensuring environmental Hygiene is to properly dispose my waste. If waste is not disposed properly, it will pollute the land, air and water
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During the cleanup at the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos, we used a trash bag to put the trash collected at the river bank.

Another way I dispose my waste at home is to trash it properly, into this trash can. It is been cleared by the Sanitation agency of the state daily
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3.. Cleaning of the environment
Cleaning of our houses and surroundings are also inclusive in environmental Hygiene. This is practically done to ensure the surroundings are clean and healthy for human habitation. It involves the use of brooms, hoes, mob, rakes and can even be done using the hands like handpicking.
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BENEFITS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE

Practicing environmental Hygiene has very good benefits to the person and the society at large. These are some of the benefits

  1. Reduces Mortality
    Mortality which is the date rate can be reduced if we practice good hygiene. Good hygiene will prolong life and improve the quality living
  2. Reduces Global warming
    When we don't limit some of our harmful practices like burning, releasing harmful chemicals into the atmosphere, the ozone layer shielding the sun from direct contact to the earth is depleted and global warming occur. If we engage in good environmental Hygiene by stopping burning, we can help to limit global warming.
  3. Reduces the risk of waterborne diseases
    Diseases like Chloera, Dysentery, Typhoid, Polio etc occur when our water are contaminated. So if environmental Hygiene will be carried out on our water bodies, we will be free from these diseases.
  4. Limits Natural Disasters
    Our bad Hygiene like dumping dirt into the water channels or drainage system can increase the chance of flooding. So if we practice good waste disposal, a case of flooding will be minimal
  5. Environmental Hygiene reduces the risk of diseases and sicknesses
  6. Increases Productivity

CONCLUSION

The effects of environmental Hygiene cannot be overemphasized. The environmental condition of a place will either harm or save the inhabitants of that place. If we practice environmental Hygiene, we will reduce the risk of airborne diseases and waterborne diseases. The practice of environmental Hygiene will also promote healthy living and prolong life.

I invite @ruthjoe @ngoenyi @samuel20 to join this contest

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 2 years ago 

Me encantó leerte estoy de acuerdo contigo que la higiene ambiental tiene un factor fundamental en la propagación de enfermedades, suerte en el desafío.

 2 years ago 

That’s very kind and hard working of you helping with the cleaning of your environment

 2 years ago 

Thank you very much. Cleanliness is essential

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