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HOW
TO PRESERVE THE
ENVIRONMENT
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By Tariah Tamunobirinengi
INTRODUCTION
The Environment refers to the natural world, the surrounding which consist of the Air, Water
and Land on which humans, animal and plant live.
To preserve the environment is to protect, to keep safe the environment and its content from
harm.
The environment is in danger due to pollution. Pollution is founded from a latin word
“Polluere” meaning to contaminate. Therefore, to preserve the environment is to keep away
contamination (pollution) from it.
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For simplicity sake i will classify the environment into three major categories.
● Air
● Water
● Land
To preserve the environment is the preserve these three classifications from contamination.
“the environment (air, water, land) is one body any effect in one affects all”...Tariah.
Air Pollution
Air pollution means the contamination of the atmosphere in such a way that it causes harm to
the environment and its inhabitants.
● Natural Source: this includes wind blown dust, tornado, wildfire, volcanoes, etc.
● Human Source: this includes wood burning, and other activities by human which could
be gaseous emissions from:
○ Mobile Sources: which includes cars, buses, planes, rocket, trains, etc.
○ Stationary Sources: which includes power plants, crude oil refineries, industrial
facilities and factories.
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9. replacing energy consumption bulbs to energy saving bulbs, this means less energy
which means less pollution from power plant.
10. government policies.
Water Pollution
This means the contamination of water with impurities which could be physical, chemical or
biological.
● Natural Source of water pollution: these are the contaminant that enters the water
supply chain from the soil. and also from the atmosphere. (Atmospheric contamination
are derived from human practice such as gaseous pollution as already discussed above.
● Humans and Animals Source of water pollution: these includes contamination from
effluent outfall from factories, refineries waste treatment plants. The residue of human,
agricultural activities, etc
Land Pollution
This is the contamination of the ground, land or soil.
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CONCLUSION
Science has made it possible for many practical solutions to preserve or minimize
environmental pollution. These solutions comes with some cost (monetary and society), in our
society a great deal can be done if we apply the four R’s which is Reduce, Reuse, Repair and
Recycle. If we fail to restore the environment right now it would be too late tomorrow.