environment

Environment means everything around you that affects your life and health—both living things and non-living things.

• It includes physical surroundings like air, water, soil, sunlight, temperature, and the place you live in (home, school, neighbourhood).
• It also includes living things such as plants, animals, and microorganisms (some are helpful, some can cause disease).
• Your environment can help you stay healthy when it is clean and safe—for example, clean drinking water, proper sewage disposal, and fresh air reduce the chance of infections.
• A polluted or unhygienic environment can make you sick—like stagnant water allowing mosquitoes to breed, or dirty surroundings attracting flies that spread germs.
• Environment is not only “nature”; it also includes human-made conditions such as crowded places, noise, smoke from vehicles, and waste management in your area.

So, taking care of the environment—keeping surroundings clean and reducing pollution—directly supports good health.