ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Contamination of harmful substance in the Environment

 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
There are Four major types of Pollution:

 Air Pollution
 Water Pollution
 Land Pollution
 Noise Pollution
 AIR POLLUTION
Air is considered safe when it contains no harmful Dust and Gases.

12.5% of 76.8% Air pollution kills an average

8.5 out of every 10,000 children
in India before they turn five.
total deaths in India Indians breath air that is worse The risk is higher for girls as
in 2017 were caused than the levels recommended 9.6 out of 10,000 girls die
by air pollution by National Ambient Air before five. In 2016, bad air
Quality Standards killed over 7,000 children
between 5 and 14 years

51.4%
of the people who died
due to air pollution were
younger than 70 years

Source: The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden and life expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
released on December 6, 2018, by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
 AIR POLLUTION SOURCES
• Industries. 411 ppm, or parts per
• Automobiles and Domestic fuels. million, is the ratio of CO2
found in the atmosphere.
• Sulphur dioxide and Carbon monoxide.
• Dust (e.g. cement dust, foundry dust and It is around 218 ppm
during the Industrial
windblown solid dust) Revolution (tentatively
• Mist. 1800s) and breached the
safe levels of 350 ppm in
• Smoke. May 1986.
• Carbon black.
• Aerosols.
 AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION
• Promote the use E-Vehicles
• Do not burst Crackers
• Use less Fuel
• Use Biogas fuel
• Use Air-filters in Industrial chimney
 WATER POLLUTION
86 water bodies are critically
polluted, having a chemical
oxygen demand concentration
of more than 250 mg/l, which is
the discharge standard for a
polluting source such as
sewage treatment plants and
industrial effluent treatment
plants

What is chemical oxygen

demand (COD):
It’s a parameter to asses the
chemical contamination of water . As
per CPCB it should be less than 250
mg/l.

Source: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change as on March 2018

 LAND POLLUTION
75% By 2050
of the Earth’s land area global crop yield will
is already degraded. dip by 10 per cent due
This could go up to to land degradation
and climate change.
90% by The worst affected
2050 areas include India,
China and sub-
Saharan Africa, where
land degradation can
halve crop production
50%
more food needs to be
produced by 2050 to
10 billion
people would be
sustain the ever- displaced due to
growing population. land scarcity by
Current land the end of this
management cannot century. This is 40
achieve this while per cent more
preserving ecosystem than the world’s
services current population
Source: United Nations Environment Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization and other reports

Propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human or animal life.
The source of outdoor noise
worldwide is mainly caused by
machines, transport
(especially planes) and
propagation systems.
NOISE POLLUTION
Poor urban planning may give rise to
noise pollution, side-by-side industrial
and residential buildings can result in
noise pollution in the residential areas.
Some of the main sources of noise in
residential areas include loud
music, transportation noise, lawn care
maintenance, nearby construction,
explosions, or young people yelling
(sports games).
 NOISE POLLUTION
The average noise level of 97.60 dB obtained exceeded the WHO value of 50 dB allowed for
residential areas.

High noise levels can contribute Noise poses a serious

to cardiovascular effects in threat to a child’s physical
humans and an increased and psychological health,
incidence of coronary artery and may negatively interfere
disease. with a child's learning and
behavior.
In animals, noise can increase the
risk of death by altering predator or
prey detection and avoidance,
interfere with reproduction and
navigation, and contribute to
permanent hearing loss.
 Other POLLUTION
• LIGHT POLLUTION
• SPACE POLLUTION
• RADIO-ACTIVE POLLUTION
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS
What is hurting the environment
Population Urbanisation
7.7 billion 90%
people live on the Earth today, of all new cities till 2050 will be in
which will increase to 9.8 billion by Asia and Africa, contributing to
2050. By then, roughly 68 per higher levels of Carbon Dioxide
cent will live in urban areas, up (CO2) emissions
from just over half today

Climate change
Economic development
30% 60% 62 million
CO2 is due to the Of total people impacted by extreme weather
Production environmental events in 2018. Floods affected 35
of internationally Impact from million in 2018. Drought affected 9
traded goods consumption is million people. A warming world
caused by amplifies existing risks
house holds
Source: United Nations Environment Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization and other reports
Thank You
3R Principle:
 Reduce
 Reuse
 Recycle