The Crucial Role of Infrastructure: A Case Study of My Neighborhood

Infrastructure plays a huge role in making life comfortable for citizens of a community. When you've got good infrastructure, the quality of life will improve. Take, for instance, a good road that would prevent accidents and also make transport swift, and clean water will reinstate good health in society. The same goes for other infrastructure, like good health systems and the like. However, in this part of the world, it's quite disheartening that the government robs us of most of these infrastructures, and today I'll tell you which one we lack the most in my neighborhood.

A few years ago, if asked this particular question, I would have said what we needed mostly was a good road, because back then most of my neighbors were plagued with bad road infrastructure and almost every road that leads to the neighborhood was in bad shape, but the former governor of the state changed that narrative by investing heavily in that aspect, and surprisingly, a journey via a route that used to take at least two hours now takes less than 30 minutes because the road is better, although I'll still hope they'll fix all the inner roads of each street to perfect the job.

So talking about the major infrastructure we lack the most in my neighborhood, I'll say without excitation that it's stable electricity. Down here in my neighborhood, the state of electricity supply is so strong that in the last month we've not had electricity for a second. That's to show how difficult and ridiculous the situation is down here.

Apparently at first they said the transformer was what has issues, but going round the entire community into other neighborhoods that surround us, I realize none of them are electricity. This is just disgusting, and it makes life difficult for us, the citizens. We're in a generation and a time when most of our tasks and activities are being powered by electricity because we use electricity appliances in our day-to-day activities.

And yet we can't boast of having electricity for just a few seconds in the last forty days; what can be more annoying than that? These kinds of situations can even lead to most of our home appliances getting damaged due to absence of usage, and yet despite how much we cry, nothing is down to turn the situation around and give us stable electricity. Some of our neighboring countries are enjoying 20 hours of electricity, and we are here without electricity for an entire month.

It's seriously not easy, and that's why many people now depend on petrol to fuel their generator so as to power their house with electricity, and this is why the price of petrol keeps increasing. The demand for it is getting more and more by the day, assuming there is electricity and it's stable. Many people won't need petrol, except just to buy in their car and move around, and if the electric vehicle is stable, that won't even be a thing too because we would have seen many people invest in an electric car that'll be more eco-friendly than normal diesel vehicles.

Well, it's not been easy, but I'm at least surviving, all thanks to my solar energy system that helps me generate electricity into my house via the sun. Without this solar system, I'll be at the mercy of my neighbors to charge my device, but all thanks to this solar system, since we've not been having electricity, I hardly feel it because my solar system is being used to charge my device, and I also use it to power the television and entertain myself.

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It also serves as a medium via which I light up my house and surroundings and as well power the fan in case of heat, but outside this I wonder how I would have survived without the solar system, but there's still a catch because it can't power devices like hot plates, irons, and washing machines with the solar system, so if at all I want to power those devices, then I'll need to install a more powerful solar system that can supply all of those effectively.

I'm hoping the government will fix the electricity infrastructure of my neighbor so we can have stable electricity or at least for some hours to do basic things around the house, but if they won't be able to do that, then I'll have no choice but to invest in a more efficient solar system in the near future.

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