Meus, hla’s BMS th Semester (Bsines Biles and CSR) UO
Environmental Ethical Issues in Ind
Ethical environment issues in India areas follows:
1) Population: Population of India i 17.8% with the World’s population, India,
with 1,220,200,000 (1.22 billion) people is the secord most populous county
in the world, With the population growth rate at 1.58%, India is predicted to
hhave more than 1.53 billion people by the end of 2030. There is a massive
imsurgence in global population and itis apprehended that this will have an
adverse environmental impact. Some impacts are exemplified by the
sonsequences of prodigious coal-buming resulted into widespread
Aeforestation, poverty, poor sanitation, use of marginal farmlands, and soil
degradation from excessive cropping, excessive ladging and uncontrolled
industrial population. As population increases there will be an inevitable
effect of economic activity. Such activity can be presented as a process of
‘transforming materials and energy and a large part, which appears a5 wast,
Will be discharged tothe environment.
2) Water Poltution: Waters the basic necesity forall ife and the most serious
environmental health problems are related to wate, Pschaps the largest ofthe
environmental issues in India facing the people of Ici i inadequate o lack
of access to vital fesh water resources. As India’s industries set bigaer 20
Will the amount of water they require and the amounts are already begining
to spiral. The rivers are onthe fontine of pollution in India, Millions of
People depend on them for their livelihoods but ‘ey are slowly being
Pollited and destroyed by sewage, chemicals and other agricultal ood
industrial waste. Ganga is the most polluted river in India Water sed
India is such that 93% is used by the agricultural sector and 3.15% by the
domestic sector. 80% ofthe fourteen peremal river in India are poled
with sewage. Industal effluents, agricultural not dumpong of teieans
into the river and othe large water bodies are the cause of water pation
The Ganges River Pollution is now at such a high level the the orenrat ak
toxins, chemicals and other dangerous bacteria found in the river ae now
almost 3000 times over the limit suggested by the WHO se ane