CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
As a result of the continued industrialization of our society and continuous movement from rural areas to urban areas, there have been the continual references o factors, which affect our environment of which one of them is pollution. The rapid development of technology and population growth are over powering man’s ability to preserve or protect the environment suitable for his survival examples, towns like port Harcourt associated with crude oil and Aba, a market town cannot be free from pollution.
In an industrialized society, manufactured chemical are used, more and more factories produced large amount of waste, which cannot be destroyed by natural process. The waste accumulates in the surroundings leading to damages. This is pollution as a result of this air, land and water become increasingly more polluted and the survival of all living things is threatened for some few decades, however, industrialization has caused a tremendous increase in the release of pollutants into the air, land and water. In many places, these pollutants are present in concentration that causes harm to human animals, and life of plants and to property as well.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
The problem of pollution in Nigeria cities is as a result of urbanization, which is accompanied by industrialization and economic development. The facts that this discharge from industries and their effluents are toxic in nature as they contain mercury, lead, nitrogen oxide and sulphurdioxide and have in one way or the other contributed to the deterioration of our environment as a result of pollution. However, the exhaust of automobile, the discharge of domestic wastes, fertilizers and industrial waste should not be over looked in light of this, the following questions are asked:
Does urbanization encourage pollution?
Has the construction of industries encourage pollution?
In what way does man contributes to pollution in his environment.
These are some of the questions the researcher hopes to examine more importantly as it affects some areas in Egor local government area of Edo State.