Environmental Challenges in Kenya
Kenya is currently facing a number of environmental challenges mainly as a result of over-exploitation of the available natural resources, pollution and release of wastes into the environment. This has led to degradation of the natural environment. Among the environmental challenges in Kenya are as follows; 1. Pollution Pollution mainly affects land, water and air. It has had various effects on plants, animal and human health. Inadequate waste treatment facilities and irregular collection and disposal methods have only worked to worsen the situation consequently making the quality of the environment poor. 2. Waste Management Human activities are the main causes of waste generation. These wastes can be in various forms including solid, liquid or gaseous. Most of these wastes end up being illegally dumped due to lack of proper technologies and facilities for waste management, hence they accumulate in the environment and some are discharged into fresh water as effluent. This ha...