Pollution

The IGAD region faces different types of pollution, including water, air and land. Water pollution sources include factories, industries releasing chemicals and radioactive wastes into rivers and oceans, and poor urban liquid waste management. Water pollution impacts include increased waterborne diseases and loss of lives, depletion of safe water supplies, reduced agricultural productivity, and increased cost of water treatment; marine pollution remains one of the most serious environmental pollutions, especially in the Horn of Africa, resulting in the loss of marine biodiversity and economic losses.