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drinking water to serious proportions. The present civilization, all of a sudden, has woken up to the naked truth or reality that this essential commodity has not only become scarce and depleted, but is also fast becoming unfit for human consumption. The causes can be assigned to reckless deforestation, over extraction of underground water by digging numberless tube wells/deep borings, unplanned consumption of low cost water for industrialization, converting tanks and ponds into garbage yards. As a survival strategy, a worldwide movement has started to conserve water, and to make industries responsible to remove pollutants from its waste-water before it is discharged. ii) Dooms Day Everywhere, water table has gone down. The tanks and ponds have become polluted. The rivers have shrunk. Its water has also become polluted. Human race has to blame itself for this state of affairs of disturbed water-cycle. The need to conserve both the quantity and quality of water has become so obvious, important and urgent that the survival of next generation is at stake. iii) Water Pollution and its Management: A) Pollution is the contamination of earth's environment with materials that interfere with human health, the quality of life or the natural functioning of the ecosystem. In a properly managed ecosystem, there is some sort of balance between living organisms and the environment. There are two types of pollutants, Bio-degradable and nonbiodegradable pollutants. Bio-degradable can become a problem, when added to the environment faster than it can be decomposed. Non biodegradable pollutants are very difficult or impossible to be removed, once contamination occurs.
B) Our Old Attitude towards water has changed a lot under the present onslaught of consumerism, where emphasis, through electronic media, has been on increasing the consumption.
It has led to the emergence of wasteful Social habits as well as wasteful Industrial technologies and Irrigation methods. This has pushed the humanity very near to a state of water-emergency
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