This brief presentation explains about the current problems that the inhabitants are facing in accordance to sustainable living and also the ways in which we can resolve these problems.

1. Sustainable Life of the
inhabitants
Dar-es-salaam
Prep a re d by K a ra n .S .C h ok sh i
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2. Contents
Groups of people living Sustainably.
Pros of Sustainability & Cons that hinder Sustainability in Dar Es Salaam.
Factors affecting the environment
-Infrastructure & Sewage Overview
-What needs to be improved?
-How can we improve it?
-Wastage in City
-What needs to be done?
-How can we implement it?
-Water Shortage, Sanitation & Power Rationing
-What needs to be done?
-How can we implement it?
Evaluation
Conclusion
Reference
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3. Groups of Residents living
sustainably
Minority of wealthy residents who reside in the north of Dar Es
Salaam bypass most of the issues that other local residents face
because most of them are less bothered.
While the other group of residents will donate or participate most in
NGOs to improve the lives of the locals who face much difficulty.
The middle class who are composed of minorities and expats are the
inhabitants living in central Dar Es Salaam living sustainably with few
problems under normal standards of sustainable living.
The lower class or majority of locals living in south and outskirts of Dar Es
Salaam are the one facing most difficult situations and not living
sustainably.
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4. Pros of sustainability & Cons that
hinder sustainability in
Dar Es Salaam !
os
Pr
Flourishing economy.
Healthier
inhabitants.
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Co
Dirty, smelly un-hygienic markets around
city centre town and outskirts of town.
Waste is not recycled but rather just
dumped away to rot. Currently waste
recycle systems have not been
implemented.
Not well maintained road infrastructure
in town that leads to traffic congestion on
daily basis.
Increased mortality
rate.
Power rationing during the summer
season 6-12hrs of electricity cuts.
Ample of fresh air.
Most parts of the city lacks the availability
of sanitized water.
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Water shortages residents are required to
have a well system of their own.

5. Infrastructure and Sewage
overview
As seen in the pictures below, during the rainy season
the drainage system is not maintained well that leads
to flooding and overflowing of dirty water around the
market.
When the water is drained in the sewage and when
the pipes can’t bear more of rain water hence, dirty
rain water flows out from two outlets, therefore
sewage water flows out, which then tends to
surrounds the market.
This leads to road infrastructure getting dirty, leads to
congestion of people who wish to look for dry path to
walk on. Most importantly it indirectly affects the
market as it becomes an unhygienic condition and
second thought for buyers to purchase the groceries
from ther. If the consumers do purchase it theres
always a probability of falling sick.
During the rainy season it also creates puddles next to
the sellers, which causes a probability of fast moving
cars to spill the dirty water over the groceries.
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7. What needs to be improved?
Firstly, the plumbing and sewage system in Dar
Es Salaam needs to be resolved then only the
connected issues that are affected indirectly by
the mismanaged system will be reduced during
the short-term and in long term will become
obsolete.
Secondly the road infrastructure needs to be well
built and maintained where it lacks in and this
issue is always resolved after a month long wait.
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8. How can we improve it?
The locals should enforce the government in getting their
surrounding cleaned up. Should send complains to city
council. Thats the first initiative an individual should
take. Seems thats lacking.
Another approach would be to educate the locals on how
to keep the environment clean for the benefit of their
health.
There are many private NGOs working. Most of the
NGOs are doing what they can, sorting one issue after
another but this also requires government intervention
which I see not happening.
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9. Wastage in City
Waste recycle is the process of reusing the same
materials for creating new products and this process
shall reduce the consumption of new raw material,
reduce usage of energy, reduce air pollution and
other type of pollutions.
To that extent we haven’t been doing this process and
from the facts we can see that an environmental
group has found out that waste company sends four
waste trucks to Pugu area of Dar Es Salaam, Ilala
alone produces 1,100 tonnes of waste per day.
Kinondoni produces 2236 tonnes of waste.
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11. What needs to be done?
By introducing a waste recycling system in the
country which will reduce the amount of waste
produced and will be recycled to make another
product
Educating locals for not littering anywhere,
would assist the government a few percent
because then it becomes an expensive process of
hiring workers to pick up litter thats dropped
around the city or even the outskirts.
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12. How can we implement it?
Waste can be separated into plastics and organic compost that can
produce additional revenue for waste collectors and fertilizers for
urban agriculture. As per the experts 90% of leaf vegetables in Dar Es
Salaam region are grown in the city.
NGOs should take the liberty of implementing garbage bins around the
local community where they feel that more garbage has been littered.
NGOs can break up into teams and on quarterly basis go around the
local areas trying to educate them on where to throw the garbage, if the
see litter they should pick it up and not ignore it.
Waste maintaining companies should invest in waste recycling process
and think on longterm basis and not on short term because its
expensive due to the fuel that is spent per truck to collect garbage.
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13. Power Rationing & Water
Shortage Over view
Currently Tanzania is one of the LDC that is affected by power rationing on alternate
day/week basis especially during summer season the duration of power rationing is
horrible since it ranges from 6-12 hours a day and is cut on alternate days. The down
side is that they have increased the unit prices from January 2014. I’m not sure whether
this will solve the problem and we still know that power rationing will persist. This not
affect the economy’s productivity but also it hinders the efficiency of the work done.
Regarding the water shortage in Dar Es Salaam, most of the town and outskirts
inhabitants rely most on ground water because the government doesn't offer water to
most parts of the towns. For the past 5 years the inhabitants have relied on ground
water. Although cost that we have incurred was typically a greater cost to implement a
well system.
Finally water sanitation, this has been a problem to villages and other residents living
outside the city area. Clean and purified water is not available, drinking ground (Well
water) is not considered to be the safest due to the high concentration of other types
minerals eg. Zinc.
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14. What need to be done?
The country can always look into an alternate source of
energy, currently its looking into natural gas with a company
Songas which sells 30% of its electricity to TANESCO.
Although most of the resident living in the outskirts have
implemented solar system. Although implementing a solar
unit is expensive and locals cannot afford such systems. Wind
power turbines are another great source since Tanzania is not
land locked but a coastal country and has a clear advantage.
Regarding the water shortage they should really put an effort
in ensuring that everyone in the city plus outside the city get
purified water, because what most residents are facing is that
the bill still come every month to their doorstep while they
are not paying for the water services.
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15. How can we implement it?
The residents should complain to emergency lines if they face power
rationing for more than a day but the most important step is eradicate this
problem once and for all. Either by forcing the government to look situation
in a form of a protest.
As individuals protesting on the street for such major issues the
government will alarmed and will look into the issue for a resolution. Just
an example, Recently In NewDelhi, India’s local people created a political
party named “Aam Admi Party” also known as “A common man’s party” so
as to fight for justice as the government was not ready to listen to them even
after an ongoing protest against corruption, inequality and other types of
problems that hindered sustainable living of an individual. After getting
enough votes from the general public, Mr. Arvind Kejrival became the chief
minister and started to clear out all the issues that local people have been
facing for more than a decade. Other political parities are in great shock. So
maybe someone should take an initiative to fight these problems that are
currently being faced in Tanzania.
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16. Evaluation
From the Above what can be evaluated from is that the major issues
that the country is facing, is that if we can invest in one major source of
energy for water, wast and power which can not only reduce major
problems but ensure that productivity is continued in its daily
operations because these barriers hinder sustainability of the economy
in a critical state. We have experienced it several times but if
enforcement is taken place the problem should cease to continue in the
longterm.
NGOs have always been playing a critical role in ensuring that
sustainability of lives is seen among the people and they are making a
big difference.
Also finally as an individual one should care for the environment as the
saying goes “charity begins at home”. Whatever an individual can do in
order to improve the surroundings then they should do it.
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17. Conclusion
Conclusively, If the above were to be taken into
consideration the inhabitants of Dar Es Salaam
would live sustainably and mortality rate of the
locals will surely increase due to change and
improved conditions of their surrounding
environment. During the long term we will get to
see and experience a healthy growing economy.
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18. References
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(2013,
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