THE EFFECT OF POLLUTION TO MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT:
A SURVEY OF IKPOBA OKHA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE
 ABSTRACT
This work was to determine the causes of pollution and its effect of man and his environment. a survey of Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area in Edo State. a random sample of 3 communities was carried out for the study. In the course of conducting the research in those 3 communities, data was collected and analysis was collected and analysis was done, the report shows that the rate of pollution in the locality was very high. Due to location of industries in the area, which goes with dumping of industries waste, lack of environmental sanitation was also one of the problems discovered there. However, some recommendations were made based on the findings. Health education should be given to them to enable them live health wise bush at home, and in the community. The government should provide wastes in to each of the communities and always declare general sanitation ones in every month to keep the environment clean.      
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE          
Introduction
Background to the study
Statement of problem
Objective of the study
Significance of the study
Research questions
Scope of the study
Limitation of the study
Definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO         
Literature review
CHAPTER THREE
Research methodology
Research design      
Population
Sample and sampling procedure
Research instrument
Administration of the instrument
Validity and reliability of the instrument
Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR  
Result and analysis
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary
Conclusion
Recommendations
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX  
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACK GROUND OF STUDY
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (2010) depend environment as the such total of all surroundings of a living organism including natural forces and other living things which proceed conditions for development and growth as well as of danger and damage. The environment therefore is liberty the entity on which we all subsist and on which over endive agricultural and industrial development depend we occupy the biosphere a tin layer of land, air and water on the surface of the plant the environment contains all the resources, both renewable and non-renewable that men will never need for survival on the plant.
Pollution is the introduction of contaminations into a natural environment that causes instability disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e physical systems or living organisms (from the Merriam Webster online dictionary http. // www Merriam Webster com/dictionary/pollution). Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy such as noise or light, pollutions, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants pollution D often classed as point source or nonparty source.  
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLE
Effect of pollution to man in his environment a case study of Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area in Edo State is about the diverse ways pollution his affected the people living in that location in Edo State due to urbanization, construction of industries lack of health education to enable them know the way to keep their environment clean. However, suggestions on possible ways of scaling the problems to enable the inhabitants of the area live in a healthy atmosphere were highlighted.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objective of the study includes the following:
1 To examine the effects of pollution to man and his environment
2 To identify the various sources of pollution
3 To suggest solutions to pollution problem in the area of study
4 To define the term pollution
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study will create awareness on what pollution is all about it’s effect to man and his environment it will suggest possible ways on how to educate people on the control of pollution that bring ablaut pollution in the environment the study will also enlighten the populace on the dangers of pollution and also server as a reference to other researchers and the government
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTION
The following research questions were formulated for the study
1 Does the present of industries is residential area encourage pollution
2 Does traffic confection increase release of pollutions?
3 Does health education about the defers of pollution help to reduce pollution and its effect on men?
4 Does indiscriminate burning of bushes and refuse disposal cause pollution
5 Does urbanization cause increase in pollution?
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of the study is Benin City and the proposed areas for the research are communities in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area in Edo State respondents will include residents at Oregbeni community Aduwawa community and Engaen community
1.8 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS:
Aesthetic: this is concerned with beauty and art, and the under standing of beautiful things
Aquatic: giving or living in on or near vector aquatic plats.
Biodegradation: an act of substance of chemical to changed back to a harmless natural state by the action of bacteria and will therefore not damage the environment
Bacteria: is the simplest and smallest forms of plant life they exist in larges numbers in air, victor and soil and also in living and dead creature and plants and are often the cause of disease
Community: all the people who live in a particular area
Contaminates: substance that make the air impure or vector impure
Dissolve: of a solid to Mize with a liquid and become part of it
Environment: the is the natural world in which people animals and plants live
Clarions: a Lange mass of ice, formed by snow on mountains that mores very slowly down a valley
Metal: a type of solid miners substance that is usually hand and shim and that and electricity on travel through e.g tin, Iron and gold
Ozone larger: a layer of Ozone high above the earth’s surface that helps to protect the earth from the sun’s harmful rays
Pathogens: this is a thing that causes disease
Renewable: to begin again after praise or an interruption
Smoker: the is a discharge or f fume from automobile and industries and emission from bush burring
Termed pollution: this is a temperature charge in natural water bodies caused by human influence, such as use of victor as coolant in a power plat
Ventilation: a allow fresh air to enter and move around a room building
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