India's Environmental Crises

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The paper focuses on India's two most significant environment crises of water and air pollution. The paper explains how these problems are very much related to the urbanization process and the ever expanding population. The paper explores possible solutions that India can take on a local, national and international level to aid in decreasing their environmentally damaging activities.

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"Industrialization and urbanization are the two factors that are primarily to blame for the profound deterioration of India's air quality. India has more than twenty cities with populations that exceed one million, and some of them are considered the most polluted as far as air quality in the world. Of the three million premature deaths in the world that occur annually as a result of outdoor and indoor air pollution, the highest number of cases assessed occur in India (Ashmore, 141). The sources of these air pollution emissions come from several distinct directions; vehicular emissions are one extremely large factor but the more prevalent one in this case is industrial smoke and pollution . The urbanization process which has ultimately led to the creation of more industry centered cities has exacerbated the problem (Abraham, 30)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Abraham, C M. Environmental Jurisprudence in India. India: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1999.
• Ashmore, Mike. Air Pollution Impacts on Crops and Forests. Oxford: ImperialCollege Press, 2003.
• Cassen, Robert. Twenty-First Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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