Environmental Issues in India

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The paper relates that many freshwater sources in India are becoming excessively poisoned with pollutants because of industrialized development. The paper explains that this increased water pollution threatens species that cannot live under polluted conditions. The paper notes the obstacles facing efforts to combat these issues and concludes that ultimate improvements in water quality and biodiversity will only emerge when the short-term benefits of economic development are carefully weighed against the long-term threat of environmental destruction.

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"India, like much of the developing world, faces significant environmental issues. In particular, we must consider the twin threats of excessive pollution in water sources as well as innumerable species threatened with extinction. These may seem to be widely different environmental concerns. After all, the loss of biodiversity isn't necessarily related to water pollution--though it doesn't take much to see how it could be. Consider marine life that would be highly sensitive to water-borne pollutants. Equally, extinction rates could climb if fresh water sources were contaminated to the point that they were killing off wildlife. However, there is a more significant manner in which these two environmental issues are connected, and that is through their requisite root cause. I am referring, of course, to industrialization and economic development."

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