EDITORIAL: Curb household pollution

A group of adults chatting  in a residential neighbourhood create an impression of a happy lot; so do energetic children playing hide-and-seek. Behind the veneer are many sick people, victims of ailments like pneumonia and numerous other respiratory illnesses caused by emissions from charcoal and wood used in indoor cooking. Gradually, the erstwhile healthy people become critically ill, some of whom end up dying!

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Mar

EDITORIAL: Curb pollution, live longer

>Solid waste management in many parts of the country, particularly Dar es Salaam, is below standard.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Oct

Curb noise pollution now!

One of the things that many first-time visitors to Western countries find very strange – part of the culture shock experience – is their hosts’ revulsion for loud noise.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Dec

EDITORIAL: Enforce noise pollution rules to benefit us all

>Tanzanian towns and cities are choked, not only by garbage; it is choked by noise too. Noise from music bars, partying households, nightclubs, motorbike taxis (bodaboda)… you name it.    That is called noise pollution. It is bad enough that bar patrons, who should be enjoying themselves, have to contend with sound levels that threaten to burst eardrums.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Sep

EDITORIAL : Up recycling of plastic to cut pollution,save trees

Tanzania might have found the solution to plastic waste, now that there is a push to use it to construct buildings and make school desks. A Spain-based non-governmental organisation, Born-to-learn, is already spearheading the use of plastic construction materials in Kilimanjaro Region.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Nov

EDITORIAL: Control size of herds if we’re to curb conflicts

>Tanzania is endowed with abundant natural resources, which include land, water, forage and a large livestock resource base. Out of the total 94 million hectares of land area, 24 million are used for grazing.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Apr

EDITORIAL: Curb use of the dollar to rescue ailing shilling

>The Tanzanian shilling is in very bad shape, so much that some analysts describe it figuratively as a currency that is in its death throes. It is cause for concern for us all, for it pains that while you could have purchased a dollar at around Sh600 in the late 1990s, you have to cough up Sh2,000 today for a single greenback.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Nov

EDITORIAL: We must join hands to curb motorbike crime

>Reports that crime by motorcycle riders is on the rise is most disturbing. It is a great pity that while the society acknowledges bodaboda (as motorcycle taxis are popularly known) for their role as a source of employment for thousands of our youth, criminal elements are penetrating it, giving it a bad name.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Jan

EDITORIAL: Curb rampant smuggling to boost sugar industry

>Tanzania has the capacity to produce more sugar than its requirements, yet it is not, the major reason being that our plantations are heavily rain dependent.

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Fixing bones with a household drill

A Canadian team has come up with an ingenious solution for using an ordinary power drill safely in surgery - wrapping it in a sterile bag

 

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