Greetings To All!
Myriad Environmental
Problems and the way
forward
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Environmental Problems
Environmental Problems
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Environmental Problems
The Borough of New Kru Town
Environmental Problem s
Environmental Problems
Environmental Problems
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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
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Contaminated water bodies
Over 84 percent of the population drink unsafe water
For every 1000 life birth 250-300 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
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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
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Constructive engagement with the gov’t and
other institutions for help
Galvanizing needed resources to help
communities alleviate environmental problem