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Effects of Noise Pollution


1. It interferes with human communication
2. Prolonged exposure leads to deafen our ears or permanent loss of hearing.
3. It causes anxiety, reaction of stress and tension, may produce fright and even heart failure to heart patients.
4. Its long exposure can cause hormonal imbalance leading to adverse disorders like increased heart beat, constriction of blood vessels, increase in cholesterol level, high blood pressure and hypertension and production of gastro intestinal problems like peptic ulcers.
5. It can impair development of nervous system of unborn babies leading to abnormal behaviour in life.

Control of Noise Pollution
It depends upon three factors:
1. To reduce the source of noise.
2. To put checks in path of its transmission.
3. To safeguard the receive of the noise. For this to happen vehicular traffic should be diverted away from dwelling sites. Proper designing of machines can reduce loss due to noise. Acoustic furnishing (absorbing techniques) should be extensively employed. There should be legal enforcement of restrictions on noise pollution.

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