ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Directions: Identify at least 3 common environmental problems that you are experiencing in your
community and fill-out the matrix below. (30 POINTS)

Environmental Causes Effects Proposed Solutions

Problems in your
community
1. Water Pollution ● Industrial wastes ● Adverse impact ● Factories should
and chemicals on people's have filters
● Dumping of health installed and
sewage and ● Destruction of proper sewage
wastes in the sea biodiversity treatment
● Oil leaks and ● Killing of sea ● Clean-up projects
spills wildlife ● Monitoring the
● Acid rain ● Contamination of quality of water
the food chain and regulate
pollution
● Lack of potable
● Restrict industries
water
from dumping
materials into the
bodies of water
● Restrict the use
of single-use
plastics
● Encourage
sustainable
fishing
● Burning of Fossil ● Respiratory and ● Government
2. Air Pollution Fuels Health Problems should take
● Heavy traffic (car ● Child Health measures to limit
exhaust fumes) Problems emissions of
● Lack of trees ● Global Warming carbon dioxide
● Smokestacks ● Might lead to the and other
from factories, formation of acid greenhouse
coal-burning rain gases
power stations ● Eutrophication, a ● Conserve energy
and municipal condition where a ● Better household
incinerators high amount of practices
(urban smog) nitrogen present ● Emphasis on
● Fires, waste in some clean energy
treatment, oil pollutants gets resources ( solar,
production Open developed on the wind, geothermal)
● Burning of sea surface can ● Give up smoking
Garbage Waste adversely affect ● Cycle or walk
● Construction and fish, plants and when possible
Demolition animal species. ● Development of
● Agricultural ● Depletion of the environmentally-fr
Activities ozone layer iendly cars
 (Pesticides and ● Use energy-
Fertilizers) ● efficient devices
● Use of chemical ● Plant more trees
and synthetic
products

● Deforestation and ● Soil Pollution ● Make people

3. Land Pollution / ● The land, when aware of the
Soil Erosion
Plastic Pollution contaminated concept of
● Agricultural with toxic Reduce, Recycle
activities chemicals and and Reuse.
(Farmers often pesticides, lead to ● Reduce the use
use highly toxic potentially fatal of pesticides and
fertilizers and problems like skin fertilizers in
pesticides to get cancer and the agricultural
rid of insects, human activities.
fungi and bacteria respiratory ● Proper disposal
from their crops. ailments in of garbage.
However, with the particular. ● Create dumping
overuse of these ● Habitat shifting, ground away from
chemicals, they animals are residential areas.
result in forced to move ● Cleanup drives
contamination from their natural ● Sustainable forest
and poisoning of habitat to find management
soil. shelter and food. ● Tree planting
● Overcrowded ● Increased activities
Landfills temperure
● Acid rain
● Wildfires
● Industrialization ● The city loses its
attraction as a
● Littering tourist destination
● Urbanization as landfills do not
● Sewage look good when
Treatment you move around
the city. It leads to
a loss of revenue
for the state
government.
● Landfills across
the city keep on
growing due to an
increase in waste
and are later
burned, which
leads to air
pollution.
4. Global Warming ● Burning coal, oil ● Change a light
and gas produces ● Increased (Replacing one
temperatures regular light bulb
 carbon dioxide ● Droughts with a compact
and nitrous oxide. ● Devastation of fluorescent light
● Cutting down crops, land and bulb will save 150
forests infrastructure pounds of carbon
(deforestation) ● Increased pests dioxide a year)
● Smokes from and crop ● Drive less (Walk,
diseases bike, carpool or
Vehicles and ● More health risks take mass transit
transport ● Threats to more often.)
● Landfills biodiversity ● Recycle more
● Increasing ● Higher wildlife ● Avoid products
livestock farming. extinction rates with a lot of
● Fertilisers packages.
containing ● Plant a tree (A
nitrogen produce single tree will
nitrous oxide absorb one ton of
emissions. carbon dioxide
● Fluorinated gases over its lifetime.)
are emitted from ● Turn off electronic
equipment and devices (Simply
products that use turning off your
these gases. television, DVD
player, stereo,
and computer,
when you're not
using them, will
save you
thousands of
pounds of carbon
dioxide a year.)