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An Insight into Water Pollution

Our seas, rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs are drowning in chemicals, waste, plastic, and other pollutants. Here’s why? and what you can do to help.   While we all know water is very crucial for living beings, we waste it away. Approximately 80 percent of the world’s wastewater is dumped (mostly untreated) back into the environment, polluting seas, rivers, streams, and lakes. This problem of water pollution is jeopardizing the health of all of us. Unhygienic water kills more people every year than all other forms of “life-killers” combined. As a matter of fact, our drinkable water sources are finite in quantum, Less than one percent of the earth’s fresh water is accessible to humankind.  In 2050, when Global demand for fresh water is expected to be 33% more than the demand for freshwater as of now, it will pose a greater challenge if we don’t take appropriate action. Sipping a glass of cool, clean, and clear water doesn’t mean that water pollution is a problem elsewhere. But whil

Definition of different Water Bodies - Netsol Water Solutions

HUMANKIND has built civilizations around water. From the very beginning, we have subsisted on and resided near water. Let us explore the definition of the various forms of aquatic geology. The precise definitions could be very blurry and confusing, however. What exactly is a sound, a site, and a ghyll? What’s the difference between a bight and a bay? What are the different words for a small stream? Living on the American seacoast can make you familiar with shoals and inlets. Living in Norway or Scotland can make you familiar with the definition of the fjords or lochs respectively.  Let us explore many different types of bodies of water that define the wetter parts of the world. To understand the distinction between the most common terms for flowing water (anything with a natural current moving from high to low), it is roughly defined by size. There is an old saying which goes as, “one can step over a brook, one can jump over a creek, one can wade across a stream and one ca

Water Scarcity in India - Team Netsol Group Initiative

Water Scarcity in India On an eventful day in 2016, devastating floods cascaded upon Chennai, encasing the city in a pool of water. Waterlogged streets became a thing of mundane relevance, sojourning for days on end while evacuation plans were hastily sought.The incident alone wasn’t as dire an emergency as the events and statistics that unfolded thereafter.The city faced a grievous water crisis. Not in terms of towns submerged, but in terms of towns falling prey to an acute water scarcity. The worst of our fears had found its way into India, and if the water failing to seep in and replete the groundwater reserves wasn’t good enough indication of an imminent catastrophe,a recent report by a renowned news channel claimed that nearly 30 cities in India would meet the same fate as Chennai by the next year or two. The agricultural sector, among others, has been on the receiving end of such woes of nature. With dwindling groundwater concentrations doing little to nour