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by Mugwanya Derrick | 14-03-2023 21:21 recommendations 0

A REPORT ON WILDLIFE

According to a report of Kampala City Council Authority of 2011 Uganda is facing rapid urbanization of 5.1% per annum, leading to overcrowding and the development of slums and informal settlements with poor waste management practices? Urban dwellers generally consume more resources than rural dwellers, and so generate large quantities of solid waste. Waste management in these areas is hampered by multiple land tenure system with many tenants not having a right to the land and therefore not able to manage waste domestically and also the urban authorities are overwhelmed by the sheer volumes of garbage generated. Solid Waste collection is currently one of the most critical services, whose quality and coverage has caused serious public outcry in slum areas. Kampala Capital City Authority acknowledges that the amount of Solid waste generated overwhelms the capacity of the Authority to collect and dispose it given the fact that the 5 cost of SW collection is enormous. Out of 1,200–1,500 tons of garbage generated per day, only 400-500 tones are collected giving a collection efficiency of only 40%. This implies that 60% of Solid waste generated daily is not properly collected and disposed which is likely to be indiscriminately dissolved and results into negative effects towards people¡¯s general health like unsafe ground water and disease such as cholera among others . The wildlife under water is at high risk due waste from industries,poor fishing methods,sand mining among others. Though some scenarios are abit challenging cause sand is used for building which has no alternative at moment so the world needs to come together find the alternative for sand cause whenever it's extracted from the lakes,swamps etc alot of species are lost something has to be done starting now 

Unfortunately, public agents, and urban authorities do not have adequate capacity to handle the increased solid waste mainly due to limited public budgets. A consequence of failure to remove solid waste finally is health hazards like tetanus, water and sanitary as well as environmental problems such as contamination and pollution in Uganda especially in urban centers something has to be done to avoid the future hazards when some wild-life spiecies will be no more.Lets conserve the environment starting with what is within our capacity.

 

 

 

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4 Comments

  • James Mentor says :
    Hello Mugwanya! This is your mentor James!
    First of all, sorry for the late comment!

    I have no oppositions to your point that urban residents consuming larger amount of resources compared to rural residents. They also tend to produce more solid waste as well. If these municipal waste is not managed well, health issues would surely arise among the civil ground. I hope an effective and low-cost solution for waste management can be contemplated for Uganda.

    Thanks for the wonderful report! Looking forward to reading your next one!
    Posted 04-05-2023 15:58

  • Yewon Mentor says :
    Hello Mugwanya! This is your mentor Yewon.

    Thank you for your great report! It was very informative with statistics that show the reality effectively.

    As you mentioned in your report, many wildlife animals are threatened by solid waste produced by human activities. Moreover, those problems are not only limited to wildlife animals but also affect humans.

    I hope that humans should try our best to conserve the environment, starting with 'what is within our capacity'!!
    Posted 29-03-2023 01:41

  • Mugwanya Derrick says :
    Thanks@Salome Nuah for appreciating My report
    Posted 15-03-2023 15:41

Salome Nuah

  • Salome Nuah says :
    Great report!!!
    Posted 15-03-2023 13:28

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