Status of water pollution in relation to industrialization in Rajasthan

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Author	Rajput, Ritu Singh Pandey, Sonali Bhadauria, Seema
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	India is a large and densely populated country; its economy is largely agricultural. Making the best use of the country’s manpower has always posed a challenge. Industrialization could become a dominant component of the economy and displace agriculture. Traditional livelihoods of occupational groups are threatened by the practice of disposing untreated industrial waste into rivers and bodies of water. These uncontrolled disposals impact local natural resources with negative long-term effects. Industrialization is the development of intellectual and financial trade that changes a predominantly rustic culture into a modern one. Many industrial units discharge wastewater locally without treatment. Many industries directly discharged their waste into lakes, rivers and ocean. Water contamination impacts the environment. Pesticides, chemical, waste oil and heavy metals are regularly transported into their waters. Humans and other living organisms can accumulate heavy metals from industrial discharges in their tissues. Industrial waste may be reactive, corrosive, flammable, or toxic. When untreated sewage is emptied into rivers, it causes diseases like typhoid, dysentery and cholera. Natural elements and plant supplements like nitrate and phosphates stimulate growth of algae on the water surface. The algae reduce the oxygen in the water and cause eutrophication. It is harmful to the water ecosystem. In Rajasthan proper, there are a number of sites bordering rivers and lakes where the pace of industrialization has proceeded far beyond the ability of regulators to establish and enforce meaningful limits on the amount of point source pollution permitted to the various industrial complexes, which include cement, chemical, fertilizer, textile, mining, quarrying, dyeing and printing facilities. The scale of the problem is obvious to the casual observer, but actual documentation of the total impact remains to be done.
Related Links	http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/reveh.2017.32.issue-3/reveh-2016-0069/reveh-2016-0069.xml
Ending Page	252
Page Count	8
Starting Page	245
ISSN	00487554
e-ISSN	21910308
DOI	10.1515/reveh-2016-0069
Journal	Reviews on Environmental Health
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	32
Language	English
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher Date	2017-04-06
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Reviews On Environmental Health Water Science and Technology Industrial Waste and Environment Industrialization Water Pollution Journal: Reviews on Environmental Health, Vol- 32
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Pollution Health (social science) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health