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WATER POLLUTION AND ASSOCIATED HEALTH PROBLEMS: A CASE STUDY OF ALIGARH CITY, U.P. INDIA
| Abstract: The main purpose of the present paper is to study water pollution, one of the major threats to public health. In developing countries by and large, ill health are attributed to non availability of safe and drinking water. It has been observed that 80 per cent of all diseases in the world are associated with surface water. The present study is based on both primary and secondary sources of data of urban and peri-urban areas of Aligarh pertaining to the quality of water and the diseases associated with it. Drinking water quality is poorly managed and monitored. Water pollution is caused by the mixing the sewerage water, toxic chemicals and industrial effluents along with the drinking water. In developing countries by and large ill health is attributed to the non availability of safe drinking water. Some developed countries have the warp of coping up with the problem, but developing nations are still not able to solve it completely. Hence, water sources are concentrated with coli form, toxic metals or other harmful chemicals. The drinking water quality parameters set by the Indian agencies. Human activities like improper disposal of municipal, industrial effluents and indiscriminate application of chemicals in different in different economic activities, pertaining to lock and brass metal for which Aligarh is famous, led to various health problems like typhoid, Jaundice, Cholera, Dysentery etc. Strategies suggested earlier improving the water supply but all in vein. It is high time to take at least some necessary resources to control the pollution and pollutants by laying down a new supply lives to replace the rotten, rusted, decaying pipes line, removing the impurities at the sources. |
| Keywords: coli form, toxic metals, pollutants, Jaundice, Cholera, Typhoid |
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