Noise pollution affects both health and behavior.
What are the main causes for noise pollution?
What measures can be taken to counter the growing menace?
The last decade has witnessed a rise in the amount of unwanted sound levels which has exacerbated psychological health as well as causing hypertension, high stress levels, hearing loss and sleep disturbances, to name but a few. Transportation as well as industrial and commercial activities will be discussed in this essay as the major contributing factors leading to noise pollution. Moreover, some practical solutions will be proposed to tackle the issue.
With regard to transport, the most noise nuisance in cities originates from cars and motorcycles. Millions of vehicles including a plethora of clunkers ply the over congested and overcrowded urban and suburban areas, resulting in high noise level in most residential places neighboring motorways where automobile owners keep honking their horns day in day out. In big cities like Tehran and Mumbai an array of problems has arisen from gas-guzzlers’ ear-splitting noise, making people, especially adolescents, live a miserable and stressful life. Moreover, dwellers in areas close to manufacturing facilities report intense sound levels that can damage hearing ability. Take the noise from pneumatic drills, saws, and rotating belts in construction work and civil engineering projects which produce ear-piercing sound.
Concerning measures to maintain the noise level as low as possible, it is vital to implement a number of strategies namely installing sound barriers that can help eliminate the sound waves that hit them. Other remedies to check noise nuisance could be creating sound-sensitive zones in the vicinity of educational and medical centers that would make the maximum permissible noise level for the zone at 55 decibel, a safe noise exposure level to reduce the risk of hearing loss. Moreover, allowable decibel levels for motor vehicles should be revised and be set on par with global standards in terms of noise from exhaust systems, engines, horns, brakes and sound systems.
Given the current state of affairs and the realities of modern life, this conclusion can be made that deafening noises created in our world are not going to fall silent overnight. Instead, it is recommended that we find realistic and sustainable ways to manage and reduce them.
Mollazadeh
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