Unbearable stench hounds us wherever we go. Our villages , towns and cities give a filthy look due to the waste. The cause of this pollution is our greed. We want more money, more food, more things, more houses , more clothes and more of everything.This is destroying our environment. Yet we remain silent spectators. The race to grow big and develop has destroyed our sensitivity. Sharing and kindness have no place in this world.
Protection of the environment should begin with precautionary measures much before it is destroyed and not after. Let us work to save the environment in our local area. However, to do that we need to be aware of the prevailing situation first.
If any infectious disease is spreading in our area, participate in any program organized to spread awareness about it . Usually during summer when there is paucity bodies , carrying waste , water sources are polluted . By health centres , we mean hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres that test blood , sputum, urine, facaes and so on. As patients increase, so do hospitals and medical shops. The quantity of bio-medical wastes, as the waste generated in hospitals is reffered to as , also increases . It is full of dangerous micro organisms.
Hospitals wastes can be dealt with when they are separated at the hospitals itself into categories like body parts, body fluids, bandages, used needles, knives and scalpels.For this ,there should be different coloured bins for each kind of waste at every medical centre . All such centres should have machines to destroy used syringes and an arrangement to transport and process other categories of wastes.
Social forestry encourages tree plantation barren lands. Parks and gardens not only relax and deligth us but also cool surroundings.
Radiation forms an important technique of testing , prevention and cure in health centres. Find out how hospitals deal with the problem of radiation. Find out how they are trying to minimise the effects of x-rays on those involved in operating the equipments. Pollution in major pollutions in industrial areas , dirty water and lack of drainage and other civic facilities are the root causes of degradation in slums. Continuously high level of noise pollution occurs where stone crushing machines are at work . Similarly at places where stone blasting is being carried out using dynamite , or where flour mills and /or heavy machinery is at work , noise levels are quite high.
Cinema halls , bus stands , railway stations and markets are major sources of noise pollution . Studies have revealed that the hearing ability of people who or live here is affected due to continuous exposure to to such high decibel levels.Usingcharts , posters , and talks make known your findings to the public and urging people to cut down on the use of blarringhorns on their vehicles and loudspeakers at social functions.
Prevention of pollution in agriculture areas by using a variety of eco- friendly means is called holistic farm protection. There is a system dedicated to test the potability of water on a regular basis. The city or village water supply departments continually test the quality of drinking water. Newspapers routinely report on regional pollution and the problems it creates . Select two newspapers and study the pollution and the problem related health issues covered by them over a period of two months. Analyse the news items and features that appeared in the newapapers and prepare a significant topics raised by the periodicals.
