Health Matters; Noise pollution
Greetings everyone, it's pleasure having you all in my blog and so delighted and glad to participate in the week #14 Health Matters contest usually organized by @sahmie, this week were are going to talk about Noise Pollution as it affects our neighborhood.
Noise Pollution as stated in the contest theme can be seen as those disturbing and unwanted sounds which is usually caused or generated by some industrial facilities, busy and crowded areas like market, worship centers and many others that can easily affects our health and well-being.
What are some common sources of noise pollution in your area, and how do they affect your daily life?
There are many sources and causes of noise pollution in my area such as
Population
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Construction and industrial company
Secondly are apart from the population aspect in my areas there many industrial and construction companies around my areas that produces unpleasant and irritating sound that sounds as disturbance to my neighborhood.
Transportation
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Another sources of noise pollution around my area is transportation and movement of people from one place to another which is usually accompanied by noise due to hold up and go slow which atimes leads to serious issues and quarrel between drivers and some road officer, the reason behind this is inadequate road space and lack of road management officers.
Market
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We all know that the name market alone is known for noise that's to say market is another reason behind the disturbance and noise pollution in my area because I live close to market which I usually faced some challenges like relaxing and sleeping in the day time, sometimes it evens contribute to discouraged me to write a post because the noise alone is unfriendly and irritating at the same time but due to the time I have stayed here I am becoming used to it but that doesn't mean I like it.
Worship Centers
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Last but not the least here are worship center today there are many worship Centers around my areas that have different time of service such as some worship in the night while some at the day time which most times serves as disturbance due the sound of the musical instruments they play during their service most especially those that worship at night and disturb the sleep of people around my neighborhood.
How do you think noise pollution impacts our health and well-being in the long run?
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There is no doubt that noise pollution negatively affect our body system in long term exposure such that many people have high blood pressure that can result to untimely death if care is not taken also noise pollution can contribute in exacerbation of our mental health issues and cause a lot of damages to our overall well being such as heart attack, sleep disruption, increase in stress level and it can also increases our risk of anxiety and depression if you don't fight against it.
What are some effective ways to reduce noise pollution in urban areas? Can you think of any creative solutions?
There is no problem without solution except death, what am trying to say is that there are some some creative solutions that can help hinder and reduce noise pollution around our areas such as..
The government should contribute to provide enough road side a officers and good road as well so that there will be free movement of vehicle in other to avoid hold up and misunderstanding among drivers and road side officer and this will help also hinder the noise and horns caused by big vehicles, also construction, industrial company and markets should be kept far away from our homes in other to reduce and minimize the noise caused by it because I know is not possible to the production and construction of valuable items and goods we need to meet up with life, also worship center should be giving some rules in other to stop disturbing the neighborhood most especially at night.
If you could design a quiet zone in your community, what features would it have, and why?
First of all let's talk about a quiet zone which is a place that have low and unsteady movement of people, cars etc with good sound quality and limited noise disturbance.
I think is a kind of impossible to design a quiet zone in the urban area because of the population size and the way people live the life over there, but if I could design one that should be in the village were the population size is low and the movement of people is also limited because there is less or no places like clubs, recreational centers and many more places that could attract noise to the neighborhood there, in village there is always generally considered to be more peaceful and relaxed than that of town and cities.
How do you think technology can help us combat noise pollution in the future?
With the fast growing and improvement of technology I think it will be much better and supportive to help us combat noise pollution in the future to come such as..
Regularly maintenance of old and machine and vehicle which usually produce noise, buying energy vehicles like electric cars can help reduce the production of fuel and other gasoline which produce a lot of noise in our environment today, also making use of solar system instead of Generator can help reduce noise and also improve the quality in ear protection like earplugs or noise-canceling headphones and many more that will definitely reduce and minimize noise pollution.
I have come to the end point of this amazing and healthy contest, thanks to @sahmie for keeping in touch with this health matters contest and I hope to see you all next week, also Let me continue by appreciating the leadership of this community for the privilege given to us to showcase and share our different opinions and views concerning this contest, I will also like to call on the attention of my fellow steemians @simonnwigwe @josepha @mercybliss to take part in this contest thanks.
