Causes of poor sanitation along the beach
CAUSES OF POOR SANITATION ALONG THE BEACH
Taking a walk along the beach, relaxing or playing at the beach can be a real treat on a hot day. According to J. Aaron Hipp, the beach offers restorative benefits to the individual.But then, how will one feel when one gets to the beach and finds the place uncomfortable dirty? It is really disturbing and the level of pollution can put on off from staying longer.There are many causes of poor sanitation along the beach and I am more concerned about the various human activities that seek to tarnish the image of many beautiful beaches values. I get extremely sad at the way we continue to deal with the situation of beach sanitation and its related problems.Defecating and throwing of rubbish and animals roaming about along the beach, I consider as the major causes of poor sanitation along the beach.
Most residents along the beach such as Bola beach and Jamestown beach lack public and household toilet facilities and the ones available are just few. It has therefore, become so common to see people using the beaches as a” place of convenience” which is not a good habit at all. A visit to the Gold Coast beach (bola beach) and the Jamestown beach as my target areas for my story revealed a very unpleasant sight of people of different ages and sex on a defecation spree and this reflects other beaches in Accra and in Ghana at large. Another took place as I tried to get information at Jamestown beach, a Good Samaritan cautioned me at the shore to be very careful before I step on faeces. This has made walking along some beaches a challenge, one has to watch out not to step on human faeces that are scatted all over the place. Instead of one feeling a wonderful breeze at the beach rather, one is welcomed with a sharp stench, I call it “mixed feelings”. The disheartening part of this barbaric act is that, defecating along the beach is now open to the full glare of the public with boldness and comfort. Also others defecate along the beach out of sheer stubbornness with flimsy excuses such as they cannot afford to pay a dime to use the toilet, to escape from bad odour to avoid joining long queues and so forth which I deem it not tangible.
Many of the Accra beaches have lost their value centers of pleasure to filth. Some of the beaches such as Bola beach and Jamestown beach serves as a sites for dumping rubbish giving uncontrollable stench. The foul smell fills the air, making passers- by hold their nose. It is now common to find haphazard disposed of solid and liquid waste along beaches. A walk along Bola beach and Jamestown beach present a filthy environment of the beach, previously sandy, today covered with broken bottles, empty water sachet, poly bags, which sometimes contain human faeces and rotten items. The same people who pollute the beaches want good and healthy life yet forgetting their actions are the main causes of the outbreak of cholera, diarrhea, and other death dying disease in Accra and other parts of the country.
Due to the rubbish dumped along the beach, it has paved way for animals to roam about the beach especially during the day. Cattles and other domestic animals are persistently seen munching their way through the rubbish to get something to feed on. These animals seen roaming about the beach is not the best and does not portray the atmospheric beauty of the beach and this can only be solved by avoiding the dumping of rubbish along beaches. Attempt at improving the sanitation of dirty beaches in Accra and Ghana at large has failed mainly due to inadequate infrastructure for waste management, inefficient waste management systems in place and the enormous volume of solid waste generated.
It is therefore our civic responsibilities to maintain a good and healthy sanitation along the beach for a better Ghana now and forever.
By RACHEAL OPPONG
https://anchor.fm/new-media-group-3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKunYUa8KHE*Watch this and give us your comments. Thank You.*
Taking a walk along the beach, relaxing or playing at the beach can be a real treat on a hot day. According to J. Aaron Hipp, the beach offers restorative benefits to the individual.But then, how will one feel when one gets to the beach and finds the place uncomfortable dirty? It is really disturbing and the level of pollution can put on off from staying longer.There are many causes of poor sanitation along the beach and I am more concerned about the various human activities that seek to tarnish the image of many beautiful beaches values. I get extremely sad at the way we continue to deal with the situation of beach sanitation and its related problems.Defecating and throwing of rubbish and animals roaming about along the beach, I consider as the major causes of poor sanitation along the beach.
Most residents along the beach such as Bola beach and Jamestown beach lack public and household toilet facilities and the ones available are just few. It has therefore, become so common to see people using the beaches as a” place of convenience” which is not a good habit at all. A visit to the Gold Coast beach (bola beach) and the Jamestown beach as my target areas for my story revealed a very unpleasant sight of people of different ages and sex on a defecation spree and this reflects other beaches in Accra and in Ghana at large. Another took place as I tried to get information at Jamestown beach, a Good Samaritan cautioned me at the shore to be very careful before I step on faeces. This has made walking along some beaches a challenge, one has to watch out not to step on human faeces that are scatted all over the place. Instead of one feeling a wonderful breeze at the beach rather, one is welcomed with a sharp stench, I call it “mixed feelings”. The disheartening part of this barbaric act is that, defecating along the beach is now open to the full glare of the public with boldness and comfort. Also others defecate along the beach out of sheer stubbornness with flimsy excuses such as they cannot afford to pay a dime to use the toilet, to escape from bad odour to avoid joining long queues and so forth which I deem it not tangible.
Many of the Accra beaches have lost their value centers of pleasure to filth. Some of the beaches such as Bola beach and Jamestown beach serves as a sites for dumping rubbish giving uncontrollable stench. The foul smell fills the air, making passers- by hold their nose. It is now common to find haphazard disposed of solid and liquid waste along beaches. A walk along Bola beach and Jamestown beach present a filthy environment of the beach, previously sandy, today covered with broken bottles, empty water sachet, poly bags, which sometimes contain human faeces and rotten items. The same people who pollute the beaches want good and healthy life yet forgetting their actions are the main causes of the outbreak of cholera, diarrhea, and other death dying disease in Accra and other parts of the country.
Due to the rubbish dumped along the beach, it has paved way for animals to roam about the beach especially during the day. Cattles and other domestic animals are persistently seen munching their way through the rubbish to get something to feed on. These animals seen roaming about the beach is not the best and does not portray the atmospheric beauty of the beach and this can only be solved by avoiding the dumping of rubbish along beaches. Attempt at improving the sanitation of dirty beaches in Accra and Ghana at large has failed mainly due to inadequate infrastructure for waste management, inefficient waste management systems in place and the enormous volume of solid waste generated.
It is therefore our civic responsibilities to maintain a good and healthy sanitation along the beach for a better Ghana now and forever.
By RACHEAL OPPONG
https://anchor.fm/new-media-group-3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKunYUa8KHE*Watch this and give us your comments. Thank You.*
It's clearly our responsibility..
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Very good one, sanitation is one of the important part everyone must embark on...
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