Water Pollution in India: An Overview
Water Pollution in India: An Overview
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印度的水污染：概述
DOI：
10.56902/irbe.2018.1.3.39
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发表时间：
2018
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通讯作者：
C. Dhandapani
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作者：
S. Kavitha;C. Dhandapani
大多数古代文明都是沿着河岸发展的。即使在今天，世界各地仍有数百万人生活在河岸上并依赖河流生存。我们所有人都见过一条或大或小的河流流经我们的城镇或其他地方。河流只不过是地表水由于重力作用从较高海拔流向较低海拔。一条河流的源头可能是冰川，另一条河流的源头可能是泉水或湖泊。河流向下游流动时携带溶解的矿物质有机化合物、小沙砾颗粒和其他物质。河流最初是小溪流，随着较小的溪流和河流在陆地上汇合，它们变得越来越宽。最终它们流入海洋。不幸的是，世界上大多数主要河流都受到严重污染。环境污染是工业革命的礼物，在此之前，农业文化造成了严重的环境砍伐和过度放牧。环境恶化是现代文明的副产品。水污染是一个重大的全球性问题，需要不断评估和修订各级水资源政策。有人认为，水污染是全球死亡和疾病的主要原因，每天有超过 14,000 人因水污染而死亡。据估计，印度每天有 580 人死于水污染相关疾病。
Most ancient civilizations grew along the banks of rivers. Even today, millions of people all over the world live on the banks of rivers and depend on them for their survival. All of us have seen a river large or small either flowing through our town or somewhere else. Rivers are nothing more than surface water flowing down from a higher altitude to a lower altitude due to the pull of gravity. One river might have its source in a glacier another in a spring or a lake. Rivers carry dissolved minerals organic compounds, small grains of sand gravel and other material as they flow downstream. Rivers begin as small streams which grow wider as smaller streams and rivers join them along their course across the land. Eventually they flow into seas or oceans. Unfortunately most of the world’s major rivers are heavily polluted. The pollution of environment is the gift of the Industrial revolution prior to this the agrarian cultures created significant environment deforestation and overgrazing. The Environmental degradation is a byproduct of modern civilization. Water Pollution is a major global problem which requires on going evaluation and revision of water resource policy at all levels. It has been suggested that water pollution is the leading worldwide cause of deaths and diseases and that it accounts for the deaths of more than 14,000 people daily. An estimated 580 people in India die of water pollution related illness every day.