Causes And Effects Of Poor Environmental Sanitation In Division B, Entebbe.

Abstract

The study focused on the causes, effects and of poor environmental

sanitation. It was carried out in Entebbe Division ‘B’ Kitoro, Kigungu,

Nakiwogo, and Lugonjo. Basically with the guidance of the objectives,

information was obtained and they included to finding out causes and effects

of poor environmental sanitation, and suggestions of the solution to the

problem. The extra information was obtained from textbooks, newspapers,

reports and journals.

The major causes of poor environmental sanitation were identified as

poverty, which is a major factor, lack of clean water and pollution the effects

included disease out breaks the study therefore was based on the following

objectives to identify causes of poor environmental sanitation and suggest

measures in relation to poor environmental sanitation.

The findings indicated that most of the respondents were ignorant about

environmental sanitation hence leading to its abuse. From the study, it was

observed that poor environmental sanitation contributed a lot of diseases and

deaths in the communities. Further more, other causes and effects of poor

environmental sanitation were revealed.

From the conclusions, the findings portrayed that poor environmental

sanitation has diverse effects both on humans and especially children below

5 years. It is also clear that a large proportion of respondents were ignorant

about environmental sanitation.