ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND

PROTECTIVE MEASURES

1 Environment and its Components2 Pollution, its Kinds and Pollutants 3 Why Protection ?4 Protective Measures

Environment is the entire ecosystem of a place in which living beings and non living things co-exist.

Components• Physical • Biological• Cultural

Environmental Pollution is any undesirable change in the physical chemical or biological characteristics of air, water and soil that may harmfully affect the life or create a potential health hazard to any living organism.

Kinds of Pollution• Air Pollution• Water Pouultion• Land Pollution

Environment Pollutants

Deposited Matter: Soot, Smoke, Tar, Grit etc.

Gases: Oxides of Nitrogen, Carbon monoxide, Sulphur etc.

Metals: Lead, Mercury, Zinc, Iron, Nickel etc.

Agro Chemicals: Pesticides, Herbicides, Bactericides etc.

Solid Wastes: Plastics, Polythene, Glasses etc.

Noise: Industries, Vehicular, Domestic etc.

Radioactive Wastes: Atomic Energy Waste.

Radiation Pollution: Nuclear Energy Recourses, Mobiles etc.

Pollution destroys all the components of environment that sustain life on earth.

Soil, we cultivate Air, we breathe Water, we drink Food, we eat

AIR POLLUTION SOURCES

Automobiles and GeneratorsThermal Power StationsFossil FuelsIndustry Chimney Wastes

Effects: Respiratory infections, Lung diseases, Skin allergies, Anxiety, Irritation to eyes, nose & throat.

Vehicular Emission: CNG, Fuel feeding, Catalytic filters, Motor Vehicles act.Ind. Pollution: Technologies to check and destroy particles released by industrial plantsNoise Pollution: By planting more trees to reduce sound levels, Nuisance check squads, silencing devices etc.

Biological: Domestic wastes, Solid wastes,

Ind. Wastes and Effluents: Heat and Radio Active Substances from thermal power plants.

Agricultural Discharges: Fertilizers and Pesticides through rain and irrigation via drainage pattern

Effects: Diseases like Flurosis, Cholera, Diarrhoea, Jaundice etc.

Recycling of sewage water and treatment of water before discharging into water bodies.

Reducing the waste input

Re-utilization of waste

Removal of Pollutants using technologies.

Agricultural and forestry

Drainage

Deforestation

Effects: Depletion of fertile top soil, Extinction of flora etc.

Self Restrain: Judicious exploitation and use of natural resources

Awareness

Education & Legally

Peoples’ participation

Life Styles and Attitudes: Green thinking, Waste not want not. Yeriscoping.

Enforcement of Various Acts: Water and Air Prevention and control act1974 and 1987, Environ. Protection act 1986

“NATURE HAS EVERY THING FOR EVERY BODY’S

NEED, BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR ONE MAN’S GREED”

Mahatma Gandhi