DIGITAL ASSIGNMENT 3 TOPIC - WATER ISSUES Water is a colourless and transparent chemical substance which is the main constituent of Earth's lakes, streams, and oceans, and the fluids of many living organisms. The chemical formula of water is H2O Water molecule contains 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom connected to each other by covalent bonding. Water refers to the liquid state of the substance, which prevails at standard ambient pressure and temperature ; but it is also often referred to its
INTRODUCTION India, being one of the largest democracies in the world having around 1.2 billion people with a wide variety of diverse culture, history, tradition, religion, caste, creed, language and ethnicities makes it one of the best place in the world to live. But despite of all this, it still faces a great challenge on the rising levels of pollution, water scarcity, poverty, improper infrastructure and transportation facilities. The Prime Minister of India Shri. Narendra Modi has launched various
percent of water. Only a fraction of this water is considered to be safe for our usage. Within this fraction, most of the usable water is in the form of ice caps, glaciers and surface water. Thus, water being an essential element to human life poses as a concern when dealt with scarcity or availability. That being said, Pakistan faces a severe national problem because of its water crisis; amassing diverse factors which strengthen its roots. On an individual level, people contribute to water crisis by
In India with the proliferation of mass media, they have become an important tool for politicians only and political parties in reaching out to a large masses. Mass media over the years have influenced our societies in which citizen, not only enjoy freedom
Abstract Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of water physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers). Water scarcity is the most worrisome situation. Moreover the its getting worse each day. Over the years, the annual per capita
revolution has been accompanied by over exploitation of land and water resources and use of fertilizers and pesticides have increased many folds. Shifting cultivation has also been an important cause of land degradation. Leaching from extensive use of pesticides and fertilizers is an important source of contamination of water bodies. Intensive agriculture and irrigation contribute to land degradation particularly salination, alkalization and water logging. It is evident that most of the land in the country
CLIMATIC DISASTERS IN INDIA & ABROAD DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING Floods in India India is the most flood distressed state in the world after Bangladesh, accounting for 1/ 5th of the global deaths every year with 30 million people displaced from their homes yearly. Approximately 40 million hectares of the land is vulnerable to floods, with 8 million hectares affected by it. Unprecedented floods take place every year at one place or the other, with the most vulnerable states of India being Uttar Pradesh,
discoveries, things cannot turn into a resource. TYPES OF RESOURCES Resources can be classified into natural, human made and human. Natural Resources Resources that are directly extracted from the nature are called natural resources. For example Air, water, soils, minerals are all natural resources. Based on the level of development and use resources can be classified into two groups, actual resources and potential resources. • Actual resources are available in known quantity and utilize with the help
qualitative. 1.1 water scarcity The population growth and industrilisation lead to exponential growth intheper head consumption of water. At the same time unethiticic exploition of natural resources caused soil erosion and related problems, like lack of ground water changing the condamination of ground water etc. now we are facing serious water scarcity problems. For ground water recharging natural method is best suited. Natural method mainly focus on plantation. 1.2 Water some facts & figures
INTRODUCTION TO FARMER’S SUICIDE IN INDIA: India is a agrarian country with 48.9% of the population depending directly or indirectly on the agricultural sector. Because of this dependency farmers suicide in India has become a huge concern. Several farmers in India commit suicide each year. The National Crime Records Bureau of India has reported that the cases of farmer suicides in the country are higher than that in any other occupation. According to them 11.2% of total suicides in the country are