Environmental Pollution

  • Pollution means the injection of harmful substance into the environment. Since independence, growing population and rapid growth of industries in India have crated serious environmental problems. For example, Delhi alone has more than 12.355 industries. The smoke and smell emanating from these industries are polluted their. Such pollution affects the health of people. It has been estimated that more than 5000 people die every year in India due to air pollution. Most of the industries dump their liquid waste into rivers, canals and underground water which leads to pollution of drinking water. Industries also cause noise pollution.
  • The amount of environmental pollution depends upon the type of pollutant; the amount of pollutant disposed of into the environment and the distance of a place form the sources of pollution.

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