Ethiopia: Industries Urged to Protect City's Natural Environment Sector Advised to Employ Environmental Audit
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
17 July 2008
Posted to the web 17 July 2008
Fikremariam Tesfaye
Addis Abeba
Industries must design and plan a mechanism by which they can contribute to reduce environmental pollution, the Addis Ababa City Administration Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) urged on Tuesday.
The authority said it was empirical that the industries do so as their waste products have direct impact on the well being of the natural resource, environment, people, and animals.
The statements were made by Dr. Hailu Worku, EPA General Manager in his key remarks at a training workshop the authority organized for representatives from the industry sector in Addis Ababa.
He said that in order to reverse the environmental pollution trends particularly by wastes generated from manufacturing industries, it has been found very necessary to build the capacity of partners at the industries and staff of EPA in environmental auditing instruments.
Most of industries in the city have no proper avoidance of waste products, Hailu said.
During the workshop, a presentation was made on the concept and need of Environmental audit, a mechanism said to play an instrumental role in the protection and maintaining of the natural environment.
Hailu said environmental auditing would facilitate for the industries to identify and reduce wastes from its source, right from raw material storeroom, to the entire production process.
The audit is also designed to help industries comply with environmental related rules and regulations, while engaged in their day-to-day operations, Hailu explained.
Industry owners and managers drawn from 25 industries in the city attended the one-day workshop at the Ghion Hotel on Industrial Development and Pollution Control efforts of the Addis Ababa, organized by Addis Ababa Environmental protection Authority (EPA) in collaboration with UN-Habitat for at Ghion Hotel.
A three day long workshop for technical persons, industrial technologists will continue on Wednesday at the authority's office.
Most industries are in the city are concentrated along Akaki Rivers' bank.
The major industries are food and beverage, textile tanneries, chemical, rubber and plastic, paper and paper products, metallic and non-metallic mineral products and wood industries.
Addis Ababa is one of the cities where the problem of water pollution is at its highest state at present.
Water quality in almost all the assessed sites along Akaki River was found to be deteriorated and not meeting the WHO, United States Environmental Protection Authority guide lines for river water.
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30% of the city water is supplied from ground water.
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