Environmental Issues in East and Southern Asia China and India.
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Environmental Issues in East and Southern Asia
China and India
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Overpopulation is the main source of a variety of environmental issues
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Water Pollution
• Rivers are polluted by a point source like industrial waste or raw sewage
• The pollution can also come from non-point sources like agriculture runoff or runoff from cities
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The Ganges River is one of India’s most important rivers as well as it’s
most polluted
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Are Biogas the solution?
• Only 250 of 4,000 large cities have sanitation in India
• 80% of all disease in India can be traced to water infected by human waste
• One city, Banares, dumps over 200 million gallons of raw sewage a DAY in the Ganges
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Yangtze River
• 42% of pollution in the Yangtze is raw sewage…25 billion tons last year (265 billion gallons)
• The majority of the rest is agricultural and industrial runoff
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The air over there
• China produces over 75% of their electricity from coal
• China’s fast economic development increases demand for electricity which results in increased pollution
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A GLOBAL Impact
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Natural Disasters too…
• The Huang He (Yellow River) is also called China’s Sorrow because of the many deaths that have resulted from its seasonal floods
• Spring rains and snow melt causes the annual flood