IMPACT OF LEATHER AND TANNING INDUSTRIES ON RIVER GANGA IN KANPUR
The leather and tannery industry grooming up in Kanpur has transformed river Ganga into a dumping ground. The leather industry discharges various kinds of waste into the environment, mainly in the liquid effluents form having organic matters, sulphide, ammonium, chromium and many other such salts. According to an estimate, approximately 80-90% of the tanning industries use chromium as a tanning agent which is highly toxic. Of all this, the hides usually take up just 50-70%, and the remaining is discharged as an effluent. Pollution becomes acute and a cause of great tension when tanning and leather industries are concentrated in clusters in a small area such as Kanpur. The tanning and leather industry is very polluting especially through effluents which are high in inorganic and organic dissolved contents and suspended solids accompanied by negative impacts for high biological oxygen demand of the river and having potentially toxic metallic salt residues. Unbearable smell coming out from the decomposition of solid waste, presence of the toxic and pungent smelling gases like hydrogen sulphide, ammonia and other volatile organic compounds are all usually associated with the activities of leather and tanning industries. A major portion of the chemicals employed in
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This is nearly 48 times greater than the tolerable value. In the similar fashion, the amount of toxic chemical nitrite has also been found to be almost double the accepted value. According to the chief chemist of ‘Kanpur Jal Sansthan’, Amita Bajpai, the river water is brown and pale yellowish in colour and she also promised that Jal Sansthan would soon send an action plan to the pollution control board regarding the issue and would give suggestions on how to deal
Suppose you have a nice leather jacket. Armani, high-end. One night, somebody beats you up and steals the jacket. You go to the police and report the theft, but instead of following through with the investigation, they question you: Why were you out at night? Were there any witnesses? Are you sure this happened? Have you let other people borrow your jacket before? Do you have a history of lending your jackets to people? Did you say “no”? Did you say “no” explicitly? Why didn’t you fight harder? You feel uncomfortable and decide not to press charges. You used to lend your jacket to others all the time. Now, the thought makes you queasy and upset. You grow paranoid, depressed. People make jokes, like can I borrow your jacket too? You do not laugh.
Using our sample of the Danieley River, sample I, we tested for eight potential pollutants. Each cation, or pollutant was tested by adding a sample of the river water to other chemicals that would form a precipitate or solid when they reacted together. If a solid formed it would tell us that this pollutant was present in the Danieley River. In our sample we found that the ions of Ba2+, Ca2+, and K+ were present in the River Water. This narrowed down our search for who was polluting the River to three potential companies.
As a young girl grows into a woman, she will lose her innocence eventually, making the transformation from purity to impurity. Innocence and impurity are often seen as antonyms, and qualities that cannot possibly coexist. However, William Carlos Williams suggests that passion and purity can and do coexist in his 1923 poem, “Queen Anne’s Lace.” The poem depicts a woman shifting from pure innocence to passion, while proving that though different, purity and passion may depend and flourish upon each other.
A single water drop traveling from any river to any ocean is influenced with more than one hundred toxic chemicals and thousands of industrial pollutants. This is what people call water pollution, occurring in any state, country or continent. Unfortunately, throughout the centuries, water pollution has been an ongoing problem, mainly caused by the release of industrial toxins and chemicals. People around the world believe that plastic and metal make up the vast majority of this issue, but as years have come and gone, the quantity of chemicals released by small and large facilities are now the leading cause of water pollution. Although industries need to release waste somewhere, they should avoid putting it in waterways because it impacts the
The production of iron and steel is a complex one, it has a potent effect on the environment and the ecosystem due to the sheer volume and the extensive use of starting products and raw materials and energy for its operations. The pollutants and wastes that are produced in this process can be classed into three primary categories, these are Air Pollutants, waste water contaminants and solid wastes. The diagram below indicates various channels that the raw materials have to go through in the process of steel making and the pollutants that follow with its production.
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Contamination of Water and Air. Urbanization enhances the proliferation of industries, automobiles, and agricultural practices. Most toxic air contaminants are produced as we endeavor to fuel our homes, automobiles, factories, energy production facilities, and might also be discovered in indoor cleansing mixtures, and construction supplies. Furthermore pollutants found in gasoline, dry cleaning services, and paint thinners and strippers; som...
Fabrics can be made of natural and synthetic materials. Natural fabrics, like cotton (NY Fashion Center) for example, are found here on earth while synthetic fabrics are manmade (MV Styles). There are many distinguish ways to determine if a fabric is natural or synthetic. Each fabric is different in its own way due to it reaction to heat, its odor, residue and chemicals (MV Styles). Fabrics are seen and used every day and in every way. Synthetic material has been pushed more into the picture because it much easier to make and the cheapest to buy. Synthetic materials are sometimes made form fossil fuels like coal. Cotton and Broadcloth are natural fabrics; Polyester is synthetic and Flannel in a synthetic blend with cotton. Fabrics are made up of fibers which have their own chemical structure, which determines their classification. Polymers make up the fibers (Ball-Deslich and Funkhouser). Since cotton is natural, it comes from a natural cellulose fiber with the polymer of glucose (Cotton). Polyester is synthetic which can be classified as saturated or u...
Rapid growth in industrialization to support the country’s growing population and economy has polluted our rivers like never before. Studies show that domestic and industrial sewage, agricultural wastes have polluted almost all of Indian rivers. Most of these rivers have turned into sewage carrying drains. This poses a serious health problem as millions of people continue to depend on this polluted water from the rivers. Water-borne diseases are a common cause of illness in India today. The bad effects of river pollution are not limited to human population only. Pollution of river has affected animals, fish, and bird’s population, sometimes threatening their very existence. Polluted water seriously affects the reproductive ability of animal and fish species in rivers thus making them extinct in
The waste water is represent of the major sources of pollution to water bodies after being discharged into rivers without proper treatment or partial treatment as it contains toxic organic substances that lead to a decline in natural water and disruption the balance of the environment ,that causes the occurrence of water pollution . Wastewater treatment processes rely on assimilation of microorganisms and enzymatic effectiveness in breakage chains carbon of soluble organic pollutants , as sewage water containing many of the compounds aliphatic ,aromatic , phenolic compounds and toluene .Which are toxic and carcinogenic compounds. (Luz and Yoav, 2008).
...rectly or indirectly discharged into the River Ganga” (KUMAR 12). In the analysis of the water countless amounts of harmful bacteria were found among them; Salmonella Typhi which causes Typhoid fever in men, B subtilis which can contaminate wounds and, Clostridium perfringens the main bacteria behind gangrene and food poisoning (KUMAR 8).These harmful bacteria have claimed numerous lives and yet the river is still being used for drinking and bathing. . The Ganges is still only one of thousands of other extremely polluted rivers, some of which are here in the United States.
Solid waste pollution will always be an issue as long as human population increases everyday .solid waste is not only cause by household only, the industries as well have hand on environment pollution. And due to improper disposal system solid waste end up on the road. Solid waste have a huge effect on human life and can also cause death in animals as well, as people clean their houses everyday litter their trash everywhere this problem will not stop. But the most dangerous waste are those coming from the industries, because those waste end up in stream, rivers where it poisonous and have bad impact on the marine life. Industrial waste are the source of toxic metal and hazardous waste that effect soil characteristic and productivity of soil when dumped in ground. And the problem lies where some of the waste do not decompose. These solid waste are hazardous, Pesticides poisonous which is not health and life threatening to both humans and animals. People are very much aware of recycling to reduce pollution yet they still fail in doing so. Silt build in freshwater water ecosystems, caused by the unnecessarily agricultural activities smothers aquatic organisms. To reduce solid waste they should be recycled in such a way that do not harm the both the environment, water, air and human health. There are animals such as
... cleaning up of the river mandatory. Not only will this facilitate the maintenance of water levels, but will also prevent the huge amounts of raw sewage along the river and its drains which produce methane gas, which in turn contributes to the yellowing of the Taj.
Water pollutants are of different types such as oxygen demanding wastes, disease causing agents, synthetic organic compounds, plant nutrients, inorganic chemicals and minerals, oils, thermal discharge and radioactive wastes. Of all these water pollutants, heavy metals and synthetic organic compounds cause majority of water pollution. Industries like paper and pulp, tanneries, textiles and coke ovens, pha...
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