Water pollution in India

Little bit explain on the pollution in India
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1. Water Pollution Issues In India Umi Raihanah Bt Muhd Sam

2. Urbanization at an uncontrolled rate Urbanization in India which lead to the water pollution in India has a wide range of causes , ranging from pesticide runoff due to its usage in agriculture, heavy metal contamination caused by irresponsible factories and mines . With the increasing scale of pollution in India. Pollutants already existing in water bodies do not go away easily, as there is a build-up of their concentrations over time and side problem such as bio-accumulation bio-magnification in animals in the marine food chain, sometimes leading to humans at the top of the chain.

3. The untreated sewage flows Sewage refers to liquid wastes that are a mixture of human excreta and non-industrial wastes from washing, cleaning, cooking, and showering etc .   Untreated sewage is a major source of water pollution in India, as well as many other countries globally, as untreated sewage can lead to  surface runoff and seepage and release into water bodies. Untreated sewage that ends up in water bodies  increases the biological oxygen demand and nutrient loading  of the water . On health impact, untreated sewage in water bodies  causes microbial contamination  as many waterborne pathogens are present in the sewage.

4. Religious Malpractices Immersing statues of deities in the river is a highlight of several major festivals. The paint and decorations on the statues are not environmentally friendly so the chemicals used in their making, pollute the rivers badly which in turn affects the flora and fauna . During the festival season of September-October, thousands of statues are immersed.

5. Religious practices such as the burning of corpses in the Ganges River. There are also some cities along the banks of the river where after the death of a person, his body is drained into the water. The body rots increases the number of bacteria in the water, which emits foul smell and the water gets polluted This photo shows the dead body floating down the Ganges river in Varanasi, India.

6. Rajender Sigh who is known as Waterman of Indian Based on his observation ,in Hindu, holy men, pregnant women, people with leprosy or chicken pox, people bitten by snakes, those who commit suicide, the poor and children below five years old are not cremated but floated in the water to decompose . So he took the measures to overcome the pollution issues by campaigning for the cleaning of several small and big rivers in the India for more than three decades .