| The environmental issues in India become more | | | | India's incredibly vulnerable water supply has also |
| serious every day and she is turning into a bit of | | | | come under attack from every angle resulting in |
| a mess on this front but with over 1 Billion people | | | | very dramatic drop in the national water tables. |
| most of which in dire poverty, it's hardly | | | | Air pollution remains a huge problem in India with |
| surprising. The recent boom in its industries, little | | | | the diesel used containing up to 200 times the |
| or no environmental education, infrastructure at | | | | amount of sulfur than our European diesel. |
| bursting point not to mention the huge | | | | The quite rapid story if India's deforestation is |
| deforestation that's going on. | | | | rather depressing. It is predicted that almost 5.3 |
| India appears to be digging its own grave deeper | | | | Million hectares of forest have been destroyed |
| and quicker than the rest of us, nearly 30% of | | | | since the independence. The government has |
| India's gross agricultural output is lost every year | | | | been slow to recognise this problem and the |
| due to soil degradation, poor land management | | | | solutions it has come up with involve |
| and counter productive irrigation. 7516 km of | | | | unenforceable legislation mixed with wide spread |
| coastline have also come under attack from this | | | | corruption and a million poeple buring desire to |
| environmental sabotage, overfishing remains a | | | | survive |
| huge problem due to lack of legislation | | | | Land degradation, disease and a huge litter |
| enforcement. Raw sewage from an awful lot of | | | | problem are some of the other problems which |
| people is pumped endlessly into the ocean along | | | | plague this great nation. It is however, not all lost... |
| with other industrial waste and chemicals. | | | | |