Water pollution in Somaliland
Mustafe
Sulub Muhumed
Water flowing to sea, Awbarkad-leh, Hargeisa region
Water sources
for Somaliland community are: water from underground and water from
rain.
Underground
water raise by water pump machine saves in damps and reached to the
town
through pipe
lines.
Rain water is
kept by damps the community uses at rural areas.
In general
two types of water pollutants mostly exist in the earth:
Point sources
of pollution: which occur the time harmful substances are emitted
directly into the water.
Rural
community saves water into the boreholes at the winter period as use
as usual, once they use water borehole some times the domestic
animals drink at the other side of the borehole, so water is
polluted for their wastes became unclean for its intended use.
The local
community throws dumps to the water streams which flow into the sea
in rainy days.water running, Hargeisa
More running water after minutes
Non point
source pollution is when is polluted indirectly through an
environmental
change.
The source
pollution is defined when a harmful particles are emitted directly
into a water,
e.g.
petroleum waste. This type of pollution, get on here, Somaliland.
In coastal
towns, sewages and toilets have effect for the water. Some houses
havesewages and toilets those flow to sea.
Municipalities authority are trying efforts to stop people who are
using water streams asdumps site but this is succeeded.
