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Access to clean, healthy water is a fundamental human right. Clean water is essential to life but it is a scarce resource in Africa. The causes of water pollution, and its effects on people, flora and fauna, is currently one of the biggest environmental threats to Africa.
Ambient air pollution driven by the burning of fossil fuels is already contributing to premature deaths including pneumonia, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, chronic lung disease, and lung cancer. In 2019, ambient air pollution was responsible for an estimated 383, 419 deaths across Africa.
Household air pollution is the predominant form of air pollution, but it is declining, whereas ambient air pollution is increasing. We aimed to quantify how air pollution is affecting health, human capital, and the economy across Africa, with a particular focus on Ethiopia, Ghana, and Rwanda.
Air pollution remains a major challenge in Africa. About 600,000 deaths every year across the continent are associated with this invisible killer.
This review attempts to discuss current status of air, water and soil pollution in Africa and provide recommendations to improve environmental health. The impact of urbanization and agriculture on the environment in Africa is also discussed.
Interpretation: Ambient air pollution is increasing across Africa. In the absence of deliberate intervention, it will increase morbidity and mortality, diminish economic productivity, impair...
Africa is plagued with different environmental challenges including loss of biodiversity, climate change and its effects, deforestation, desertification, erosion, flooding, air, water, and land pollution, etc. These challenges have severe impacts on human health owing to limited coping capacities.
Patterns, sources and drivers of air pollution in Africa. Africa is a large continent — second in size only to Asia, and currently containing 54 countries and two disputed territories.
Up to 5.5 billion people worldwide could be exposed to polluted water by 2100, a modelling study has found. Researchers mapped surface water quality under three different visions of future...
This study identifies Sub-Saharan Africa as a major future hotspot of surface water pollution by applying a high-resolution global surface water quality model up to 2100.