ABSTRACT
This chapter provides environmental health refers to sanitation management including solid waste disposal, human excreta disposal and waste water management. The hypothesis of the separate sub-culture was used to explain the perpetuation of poverty from generation to generation. The growth of urban poverty and deteriorating urban environment in Uganda has necessitated government interventions. Poverty is a structural crisis requiring structural solutions. Governments have the responsibility to reduce household poverty but the people also have an obligation to take up measures directed at poverty alleviation. Poor sanitation has also negatively affected the environment. This has mainly resulted from lack of 'private toilet facilities' for a significant proportion of households, which has resulted in the disposing of human excreta in the open drains in Kampala City. The major health problem has been the outbreaks of cholera that has hit Kampala City with calamitous consequences.
