Living with Noise and Water Pollution: My Personal Struggle

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Welcome, dear readers and frequent visitors to my blog. Today, I come to talk to you about the causes of pollution.

This is a very interesting topic because, in my case, I have to, let's say, suffer or survive several of them. To get into the subject, the main cause of pollution where I live, I can say with complete certainty, is noise pollution.

Talking about noise pollution is something that really helps me achieve catharsis.

Here, I live in an area where my building is located right on a main avenue that is very busy with vehicles and public transportation that runs until nine or ten at night, when people are supposed to be calm and, in many cases, sleeping in their homes.

The noise of horns and engines really disturbs us.

Adding to this, we live near a very popular area, and the custom of people with limited resources is to play music until late at night and throw parties.

Of course, this brings the inconvenience that those of us who live nearby cannot fall asleep.

This is the case for me and also for a neighbor of mine who was a great friend and couldn't sleep precisely because his apartment faced this popular neighborhood where they held parties until dawn, not letting him sleep. He is a very elderly person, almost 85 years old, and neither he nor his wife can sleep because of this.

The noise from building repairs is also very annoying because of the constant hammering and the sounds that are clearly heard when people open water taps or flush the toilet, making the water circulate.

All these noises from the water flowing are heard and are quite bothersome. And when you're sleeping peacefully, they wake you up.

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This creates many problems.

Although local authorities have decreed municipal ordinances to regulate these situations, with laws specifying that if a person is making noise or if there is a certain level of noise emissions, that person will be fined and sanctioned, most of the time this is hardly enforced.

Usually, what happens is that they call the police, and the police only give a warning to the neighbor or the person causing the disturbance, often using a megaphone from their vehicle, trying to expose the neighbor or the person causing the nuisance.

In some cases, this works because the person feels ashamed when their name is mentioned by the police in front of the whole community.

But lately, it seems this doesn't work anymore because the person doesn't care; in fact, they find it funny to be named by the police.

Another pollution problem we have here is with water.

The water doesn't come filtered with the required processes to make it completely potable, and it arrives with many solid residues.

This is a problem in our neighborhood because the tank where we store the water that reaches us has walls that accumulate a lot of dirt, and this dirt drains into the water that goes up to our building.

As a result, we have brownish water that is not optimal for human consumption.

Also, the treatment plants we have often don't process the water properly, and it comes with solid residues.

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This is a problem for us, for the entire population, because we don't enjoy potable, quality water. This causes many illnesses.

Personally, it has caused me kidney problems and certain skin conditions because, having to bathe with this type of water, I get progressively sick.

To avoid this, what I do is try to boil the water for 90 minutes, and even then, I keep getting sick.

As for noise pollution, what I do is use swimming earplugs, and that has helped me sleep.

Although it has been dangerous at times because, with the high crime rate in the area where I live, when someone has tried to break into my home by forcing the locks, I haven't heard it and have been at risk of being robbed. In fact, it has already happened to me once, but that's another story.

Of course, there are other causes of pollution that I haven't mentioned here and that are also very important, such as mental pollution, which includes all those negative thoughts, emotions, and stress that affect mental clarity, information overload, and toxic influences, which are personal relationships or environments that generate a lot of anxiety.

But that's a topic for another time, as is pollution from social media.

And this is what I can say about the causes of pollution.

I hope you enjoyed this brief exposition, and until next time.