Assistant Professor, Department of Punjabi, SPN College, Mukerian, India
Online published on 20 September, 2016.
In today's world, pollution has become one of the biggest hindrances in achieving sustainability in development. Nearly two thirds of earth's surface is covered by water and one third is taken up by land. The incessant increase in earth's population is increasing pressure on water resources of the planet. The human activities are largely responsible for ‘squeezing’ our oceans, rivers and other inland waters resulting in water pollution. Industrial revolution has been the most significant reason for arousing this grave problem called “pollution”.
Water pollution is posing a serious threat especially in third world countries like India as almost 70% of its surface water resources and increasing percentage of its ground water reserves are contaminated by biological, toxic, organic and inorganic pollutants. Industrial and domestic sectors contributes maximum to water pollution.
