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This post is in response to week eight edition one topic from the hive learners community. Kindly click HERE to participate if interested.
“POLLUTION”
What are the major causes of pollution in your area? Are they vehicles, industries, or just humans? Suggest ways in which this can be rectified.
I will love to approach this question from the personal experiences I have had so far with pollution living in Lagos state Nigeria. To a layman's understanding, pollution simply means those substances we release into the air, the land, and the water which causes danger to human health.
I think pollution happens everywhere both the developed and underdeveloped areas but the ability to understand that this is a problem and find better ways of curtailing it is what matters a lot.
One major way I have suffered pollution is from Car Exhaust.
Some car owners find it less important to service their car exhaust as when due thereby pulling the air with those harmful smoke/gases that emanate from the car. Considering the number of cars on Lagos road daily, hardly will one go out without inhaling those harmful gases except you are on A.C car where the car windows are pinned up. I remember rushing for an official urgent meeting in my former place of work one afternoon when I received a call from my boss to rush down as they needed my signature on one particular document. I quickly dressed up and boarded public transport. It was supposed to be a 30 minutes drive but then, severe traffic was on the road with some vehicles polluting the environment nonstop. I was pregnant then, and on perceiving smoke from the car exhaust, I started vomiting badly, oh my God...it was a horrible experience. All the passengers had to come down and some were just pouring water on my head to be calm. Ordinarily, my body would have tolerated the smoke but that does not mean it won't affect my health but not to vomit if not for pregnancy. Some asthmatic patient suffers this as well.
How then can we rectify this?
Vehicles that produce smoke should not be allowed on the road. Government can also give an order of paying a fine to any driver whose vehicle is found polluting the environment.
Another source of pollution in my area is just humans. Remember from the beginning, I said I am going to approach this question from my own experiences. That being said, it baffles me when some categories of people that called themselves human beings will be peeing inside a bucket and discarding their waste product on the street, especially in stagnant water on the major road where people pass.
The first time my family relocated to Lagos State, it was a dry season. One could barely determine an area that has water flooding issues. So on seeing the environment well dry and the house we were about to rent which was a newly built duplex, we concluded every transaction almost immediately and packed in. The rainy season came, and there comes serious stagnant waters along the major road where people uses to get to their homes. There were small markers on both left and right of the road, so what those market sellers do was that they all purchase a little bucket which they use to pee in their shops and discard inside the stagnant water. The stagnant water covered lots of space on the road in such a way that when heavy rain falls, one won't have any other option but to remove your shoes and walk pass the polluted stagnant water, and at the end of the day, you will likely have a skin reaction or itches if you fail to disinfect your legs. Well, my family couldn't allow the rent to expire and we moved out to a better estate, at least Health is wealth.
Way to rectify it
Market authorities should stop neglecting this source of pollution as it affects the lives of people knowingly and unknowingly but rather make a serious order to stop such acts otherwise face whatever consequences of paying a fine or locking up the shop of any offender.
There are still other major causes of pollution in my areas, like the generators which cause noise pollution, the bush burning, careless discarding of nylons or empty water cans on the road.
This is my entry to this week's topic edition by the 
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