How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
1. Instead of deforestation, representation should keep in mind. We should take help from the Govt, for plantation programmes. Everybody should take part in plantation and care the plants.
2. People should at once stop the over utilization of natural resources instead they must be properly used.
3. We should make habit for waste disposal, compose and to restore biodiversity.
4. Mixed cropping, crop rotation, and proper use of fertilizer, insecticide and pesticides should be taught to farmers. Encourage the use of manures, biofertilizers and organic fertilizers.
5. We should protect wildlife. Though hunting is not allowed even then the persons are doing so. For this educated young should teach the lesson of wildlife act.
6. We must develop energy saving methods to avoid wastage of energy. We should remember "energy saved is energy produced."
7. Use drip irrigation and sprinkling irrigation to improve irrigation efficiency and reduce evaporation.
8. Utilize renewable energy sources as much as possible. Encourage use of solar cooker, pump etc.
9. We should recycle the waste and waste water for agriculture purposes. 10. Install rain water harvesting system in houses, colonies. 11. Try to educate local people for the protection and judicious use of natural resources.
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