Nigeria - water Pollution
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Hello and welcome to my presentation. My name is Lemmy carla particle.
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And I'm going to talk to you about a
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group project which is about water pollution in Nigeria.
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So, and you might know the world today faces a lot of water challenges.
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And these are linked to SDG number six, which is about clean water and sanitation,
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A lot of quality and hygiene are not as beautiful as beautiful as we always see,
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especially here in the West.
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That's why we've chosen this area of investigation. Especially for equality.
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Now we look into the country of Nigeria because Nigeria about 60% of the population
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still do not have access to clean drinking
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water despite having sufficient sources for water.
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Now,
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our umbrella challenge sort of is the question
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of how might we combat the Nigerian populations,
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increasing health risks arising from water pollution.
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So due to the water pollution in the in the in the sort of area,
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a lot of people have a lot of diseases and even causing deaths.
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So this is where we want to research into
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now for this. Well, the entire question of course is a very complex challenge.
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But we have divided up into five sections
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of five topics which draw upon different disciplines.
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Now, the first one is the cultural history of water.
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So how is the socioeconomic cultural part in the past?
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And how does that have an influence on how the
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pollution is right now?
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Secondly, the legislation of the entire area?
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So who is in control of natural resources? Water is in the national government, is it
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indigenous communities.
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Thirdly, chemical pollutants in water. So what pollutants are there?
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Extreme water and where do they come from?
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And what chemical analysis can we do of these?
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Fourthly, we're going to look into a case study of mining.
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And lastly with those of my specific topic is about nature based solutions.
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Now let's look a little bit more into my sort of area of nature based solutions
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now fruits.
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I've sort of framed the essential question of how can nature based solutions
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be applied to tackle Nigeria's growing health
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problems arising from poor water quality.
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So nature based solutions as a potential solution for the growing um rise in
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the poor water quality and that leading to diseases in the people in Nigeria.
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Now let's wait a minute and let's see
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what how would we define nature based solutions.
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First of all, there's been a lot of definitions over the over the past years,
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but one that I really like is this one and I like it especially because
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it really focused on actions and protecting
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environment as well as human well being.
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So biodiversity as you can see at the end of the sentence as well as human well being.
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And this is why I've chosen this definition to put it here.
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There are different types of
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resolutions.
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These include like repairing brats, buffers, constructed wetlands,
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vegetative waterways, biological monitoring etcetera.
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These have proven to be successful in different parts of the world.
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So that's why I decided to look into this sort of challenge
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area of how this could be potentially applied to Nigeria as well
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for this. How am I gonna go approach approach this challenge or this topic?
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Well the idea is that I want to use a mixed methods research approach.
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Um so this is including quantitative as well as
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qualitative data which in the format of literature reviews,
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interviews, surveys, data analysis, stakeholder engagement, case studies.
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In the end sort of the idea is to look at the problem space from a perspective of
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different stakeholders using these different methods.
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But then looking at how Nature resolutions
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have been successful in different areas across
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the world and trying to see if it's translate able to Nigeria as well?
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Of course the scientific part is really important about you know,
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how nature resolutions work and all of that.
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However, the social part is also equally important for that.
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I would like to take into consideration gender perspectives.
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So how are men and women affected by
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this specific solution as well as social acceptance.
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So once the nature of resolution comes into place,
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how do people accept this? How much should they trust in the solutions?
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Of course we need a policy support as well.
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So all of this needs to be backed up by policy
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and finally, who's going to pay for it?
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Right,
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so what are the economic and financial needs for
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this nature of resolutions to be a successful solution
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to the challenge of water pollution in Nigeria?
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I hope I've sort of given you an overview of what this engaged phase has been
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and how the project I'm gonna planning to take the next step to the project.
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I look forward to talking, talking to you again in the next time.
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I give you an update on how this project goes.
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Until then. Goodbye and thank you.