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Environmental Degradation
Water Stress

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Global Warming and Climate Change

Ozone Depletion

Other types of environmental degradation

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 2023 Consider the following statements :
Statement-I : According to the United Nation's 'World Water
Development Report, 2022', India extracts more than a quarter
of the world's groundwater withdrawal each year.
Statement-II : India needs to extract more than a quarter of the
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(b) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and
StatementII is not the correct explanation for Statement-I
(c) Statement-I is correct but StatementII is incorrect
(d) Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct

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 2014 What are the benefits of implementing the ‘Integrated
Watershed Development Programme’?

1. Prevention of soil runoff

2. Linking the country’s perennial rivers with seasonal rivers
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 2013 On the planet earth, most of the freshwater exists as ice
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 2023 Consider the following statements regarding mercury pollution :
1. Gold mining activity is a source of mercury pollution in the world.
2. Coal-based thermal power plants cause mercury pollution.
3. There is no known safe level of exposure to mercury.
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 2017 Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) is a
standard criterion for m
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 2013 Which of the following can be found as pollutants in
the drinking water in some parts of India?
1. Arsenic
2. Sorbitol
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(c) 1, 3 and 5 only (d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

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 Generation of
Fly Ash in India
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Disposal

Government
initiatives
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 NGT bans

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Torrefaction

Happy Seeder Machine

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 GREEN CRACKERS

Safe Water Releaser

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 Miyawaki forest

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 Ozone Compound Uses
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 Effects of Ozone depletion
Humans Damage to DNA, genetic mutation;
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Air Chemical reactivity of gases increases
quality Changes in the concentration of O3, H2O2, OH
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