Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: July | Volume: 6 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 373-383
A Review on Consequences of Pollution of Some Indian Major Rivers and Their Remedial Measures
A.K. Panigrahi1, Subasini Pattnaik2
1Ecotoxicology, Fisheries and Aquaculture Extension Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, 741235, West Bengal.
2Department of Zoology, Berhampur University, Berhampur, BhanjVihar, Odisha
Corresponding Author: A.K. Panigrahi
ABSTRACT
In India Rivers are divided into two parts like, north Indian River and south Indian River. Some north Indian rivers are Indus, Ganga, Gomati, Damodar, Rihand, etc. Some south Indian rivers are Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery, etc. In India, river plays an important role. Many people directly or indirectly dependent on rivers. Rivers not only important to human it is also important to animals and plants. Because river act as most biodiversity rich area. But nowadays Rivers become polluted by various ways. Mostly occurred by industrial effluents and heavy metals contamination. Metal directly or through drain enter into rivers. Metals like, Fe,Hg,Cd, Pb, Zn cause most pollution in rivers. Beside sewage water directly fall into rivers and ultimately pollutes river. This paper contains cause of river pollution, effects of river pollution and remedial measure of river pollution.
Key words: Heavy metals, Pollutants, Pesticides, Runoff, Anaemia, Food chain.
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