Question

Improved Environmental Sanitation brings about richness and scarcity in biodiversity. Poor Environmental Sanitation brings about richness and scarcity in biodiversity. Analyze both of the above statements; describe them with suitable examples in support of each aspect.

Answer 1

Environmental sanitation is the control of environmental factors that leads to transmission of diseases.
Environmental sanitation includes

• clean and safe water supply
• clean air
• proper and safe disposal of wastes
• protection of food from chemical and biological contaminants

Proper environmental sanitation thus definitely controls the pests, and other disease causing microbes. In this way it leads to scarcity of biodiversity. On the other hand, poor environmental sanitation will lead to excess growth of pests and microbes which, though harmful to humans, definitely leads to richness of biodiversity.