River Pollolutions: Pollution Of Rivers In India

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Pollution of Rivers:
Rivers are the backbone of any country as it gives lives such as drinking water to plants and animals including human being, irrigation facilities for dry soil, water for industry, water for house need, and also in many ways. Rapid growth in industrialization to support the country’s growing population and economy has polluted our rivers like never before. Studies show that domestic and industrial sewage, agricultural wastes have polluted almost all of Indian rivers. Most of these rivers have turned into sewage carrying drains. This poses a serious health problem as millions of people continue to depend on this polluted water from the rivers. Water-borne diseases are a common cause of illness in India today. The bad effects …show more content…

As citizens of India we have constitutional duty to protect our environment. Similarly, the government also has a duty to protect the environment for the welfare of its citizens. Article 48A of the Indian constitution, incorporated in 1976 through 42nd amendment, dealing with the directive principles, states that the State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard forests and wildlife of the country. The second constitutional provision referred to above is enshrined in Article 51-A, clause (g) whereby to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers, wildlife and to have compassion for all living creatures is one of the 10 fundamental duties of every citizen of the …show more content…

Recycling—using the same item more than once in the same or alternate forms—is the third conservation practice that helps prevent water pollution. For example, paper recycling helps prevent water pollution by lowering the demand for raw timber, allowing more trees to remain on the mountainside for stabilizing the soil, cooling tributary waters, and otherwise benefiting water quality. Recycled paper is also easier to pulp than timber. It takes less energy, less water, and fewer chemicals to create recycled paper than it does to create paper from raw wood. We also can recycle other items to help prevent water pollution, including glass, aluminium, oil, metals, and plastics. Using these items in their recycled forms requires fewer virgin resources, disturbs the land less, and generally consumes less energy. Instead of developing a new mine to extract metal deposits, for instance, we can increase our use of recycled metals to meet all or part of the

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