Water, the looming frontier (The Hindu, GS-3)

25 Mar Water, the looming frontier (The Hindu, GS-3)

Issue: NITI Ayog and WaterAid  have found that over 70% of India’s surface and groundwater is contaminated by human and other waste.

Reason for water issue:-

• Indiscriminate use of the environment.
• practice of keeping animals locked together for mass production of meat.
•  birth mutations in erstwhile dormant viruses.

 source of virus

• proliferate in wastewater.
• raw sewage ex- sydney.
• discharged into water bodies
• water-transmitted viral pathogens are astrovirus, hepatitis A and norovirus.

Solution:

• conserve and use our natural living resources.
• Saving the extravagance.
•  aquifers underlying forests can provide healthy mineral water
• Conserving river floodplains.

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Swarn Singh

Plutus IAS Current Affair Team Member