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प्रश्न
How is noise a source of pollution? Why do we need to look at the problem of noise pollution seriously?
उत्तर
Noise is a source of pollution because noise pollution is done by extreme noise of the industrial sector, transport, loudspeakers, etc., which adversely affect human health causing severe headache, migraine, mental disbalance, nervous breakdown, heart diseases.
Noise is a health hazard. Exposure to prolonged noise has many physical, physiological, and psychological effects on human beings in the following ways:
- repeated exposure to noise reduces the sleeping hours
- productivity or efficiency of a human being
- it affects the peace of mind and invades the privacy of a human being.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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