Effects of Air pollution:
Air pollution may be harmful for our bodies in many ways. Air pollution causes a range of short-term respiratory symptoms, including coughing, throat irritation, chest tightness, wheezing, and shortness of breath as well as long-term damage and aggravation of other diseases. Air pollutants are mostly carcinogens and living in a polluted area can put people at risk of Cancer. High levels of particle pollution have been associated with higher incidents of heart problems.
Effects of water pollution:
The most common effect of water pollution on human beings is disease. Drinkingwater contaminated by disease-carrying micro-organisms, also known as pathogens, cause various waterborne diseases, such as typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis and cholera. The water we drink the vegetables are all contaminated to-day. As a result of this contamination our world is afflicted with a quite a number of incurable diseases.
Effects of Sound pollution:
Noise health effects are the health consequences of regular exposure, to consistent elevated sound levels. Elevated workplace or environmental noise can cause hearing impairment, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance, and sleep disturbance. Changes in the immune system and birth defects have been also attributed to noise exposure.
Effects of other environment pollution:
Soil-pollution may have negative effect on farm output ratio. It can also contaminate the ground water.
The heat generated by industries and vehicles causes thermal pollution by raising the environmental temperature of the nearby areas.
Radioactive pollution is highly dangerous when it occurs. It can occur due to nuclear plant malfunctions, improper nuclear waste disposal, accidents, etc. It causes cancer, infertility, blindness, defects at the time of birth; can sterilise soil and affect air and water.Pollution not only affect humans by destroying their respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological systems; it also affects the nature, plants, fruits, vegetables, rivers, ponds, forests, animals, etc, on which they are highly dependent for survival. It is crucial to control pollution as the nature, wildlife and human life are precious gifts to the mankind.
