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WATCHOUT ZAMBIA'S ENVIROMENT
by chagota mwanza from Zambia

Zambia is a country located in central Africa. it is land locked country with a population of 300 people approximately. There is a lot to say about the healthy urban environment. Many industries are polluting the fresh Zambian air and some are throwing dangerous chemicals in water which is harming the enivroment.for example here is a picture of a Zambian mine. The mining industries are mainly in the copper belt province. The Ministry of Health has received a lot of people in the hospitals complaining of their eyes because of the suphar chemicals used in the mines. This is making people have night blindness and having to put on spectacles .this is very unforenate the urban environment is also affecting our health because of the chemicals they use the fishing industry is also affected .When the people complained of the disease which affected the fish (which is one of the best relish in Zambia).the people are nolonger having the fish because they think it can bring up another disease but so no one has died. With the urban environment the people in kabwe town in the central part of Zambia. There is a Lead (mineral) pollution. Children play in the dusty playground, mothers eat soil (pregnant women) and fathers plaster their mad houses with soil but little do they know that they are putting their lives at risk. Many people have died because of polluted air. Having different kinds of diseases such as flu because of the polluted air.