Everybody wants clean air to breathe and healthy water to drink. Sportsmen want undisturbed land to hunt and fish in. And every parent wants their child to grow up healthy and unimpaired by local pollution.

Few governments, if any, have provided effective measures to combat the consistent environmental sanitation crisis that continue to plague the country.

Ghana ranks as one of the filthiest countries in the world at present, yet policy makers are all over the place asking for the much needed foreign investment, despite the squalor, disease and poverty.

It is worthy to note that, most of these multi-nationals apart from political stability, also consider among others healthy environment and workforce before making investment decisions. In South Africa for instance, where gold is said to be their main source of foreign exchange, tourism is supposed to yield ten times more income than that received from the proceeds of gold.

This is all due to the healthy environment of that country and the confidence the international community has in it.

For every country to have a strong and motivated workforce, their working environments and conditions must be taken care of properly.

No wonder in most developing countries where poverty and diseases thrive, no meaningful economic gains are realized.

Pollution has also become a major environmental problem due to the lack of clear-cut policies to check the activities of those who pollute the environment.

And we should not loose sight of the wanton destruction of our rich flora and fauna that nature has blessed us with.

With the mass destruction of our evergreen forest and the wildlife that live in them, we are interfering with the arrangement of nature in the way that is difficult to replace what is being lost.

The question of what goes into our system as food has also become a huge bother.

With our quest to consume what we have not produced ourselves on the increase, who can be sure of what the quality of what is being taken in is, in terms of nutritional values.

It is sadden to see a heap exposed filth at the centre of the cities breeding mosquitoes and flies.

Health Digest can confirm that the villages in the country are more sanitation conscious than the city where most of the waste management organizations are fused.

The political authorities seemed to lost sight over the health dangers the filth could post to the people.