LIFE IN THE SLUM

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
This is the major crisis affecting most of the people in Kenya and mostly those living in the slums. Pollution is the introduction of substances that affect the environment negatively or positively. Pollution is rampant due to lack of awareness on conservation process.
Poor disposal of sewage materials, domestic wastes, chemical, into the land, air and water pollutes it. This leads to outbreak of dangerous diseases like cholera, skin disease and the burning of them emits gases like carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases into the air that create a lot of difficulties in breathing system and disease like TB, typhoid or even heart failure.
Most of the rivers here are not in usable state because of pollution. The rivers are polluted by the emitting of wastes in liquid form to the water with high chemical conservation. Some sewage are directly connected to the rivers and human activities like the disposal of garbage directly into the rivers.
I myself think this issue can be easily controlled by following right procedures on the environmental conservation measures.



WATER SCARCITY

Kibera is the second largest slum in the world. The houses here are crowded to certain a larger population of the people living under poverty and the rise of rural to urban migration. Due to the concentration of houses at a point, this does not allow for good water network system and hence people suffer from lack of water
Water is an essential commodity to human and hence can’t do without it. The residence here men women and children are forced to walk a distance in search of which is always scarce. Places with clean water from taps are sold at Kshs 5 per every 20litres. For those who can’t purchase strive along the street of the ghetto to allocate leaking tap to fetch water for use.
The rivers here can’t provide water for domestic use due to their population. Polluted by the submission of dangerous chemicals from factories damped garbage and the sewage connections direct to the rivers.

By Fredrick Ochieng