The awareness on environment among people has created much impact these days. Pollution may be due to natural process or from artificial process originating from human activities. They are classified as air pollution, land pollution, thermal pollution, sound pollution and radioactive pollution. All these causes health hazards not only to plants, and animals and life but also human beings. Gaseous pollution due to carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and automobile exhaust causes acute illness, chronic disease, eye irritation and nervous impairment.
Lead emitted from automobiles cause brain damage in children. Air pollution causes damage to property and materials. In India Taj Mahal is an example of this sad state. Industrial wastes, sewage waste, and agricultural wastes contain taxies, organic and inorganic hazardous materials. Insecticides and pesticides also polluter water which become unfit for drinking, Heavy metal water causes several adverse effects on man and cattle. Soil pollution causes bacterial infection. They are responsible for the spread of deadly diseases like typhoid and cholera.
Land pollution is caused due to solid wastes from homes, farms and industries. Radioactive pollution induces cancer, abnormal births mutation in man. Thermal pollution increases the temperature of lakes and rivers. It affects aquatic life and the pollution increase the temperature of lakes and rivers. It causes increased heart beat, headache, irritability and affects our tranquility and efficiency.
All kinds of pollutions are health hazards possibly will cause lots of inconvenience to people live in the city or nearby industries. Therefore today’ s need is to preserve the environment and guard it against all kinds of pollution. It is the duty of every human being, to preserve the environment for the future generation.
We must take at most care in making environment for the good of the people; it is everyone’s interest that would make this world a better place for everyone to live in. Every small little way people making sacrifice for the welfare of the environment will make the life wonderful.
