Question

How does Industrial pollution cause landDegradation ? Explain with examples?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The pollution emitted from industries is known as industrial pollution. It includes polluting the air, water and land.

Industrial pollution is caused by burning of fossil fuels such as oil, petrol natural gas, and petroleum, dumping of waste in the water bodies as well as land and releasing the untreated gas and liquid waste into the air.

A major concern of industrial pollution is land degradation. Land degradation is the process where the land loses its value due to human imposed activities.

Industries cause land degradation by not effectively exhausting their waste and radioactive material. Rather it is dumped on the ground.

Afforestation also causes land degradation. The rapid construction of industries leads to laying off the trees, in return causing land degradation

Answer 2

Industrial pollution causes land degradation in the following ways-

• Industrial pollution has a wide range of negative effects, including water contamination, and the release of chemicals into the soil and air, and it is responsible for some of the greatest environmental catastrophes in history.

• Hot water from thermal plants and industries flows into water bodies before it cools down.

• This dumped polluted water degrades the water as well as the land.
• The effluents from chemical industries, petroleum refineries, steel mills and smelters, sewage effluents, and biochemical activities discharge chemicals into the land.
• These chemicals affect the fertility of the land and can make the soil unfertile.
• The pollution can also kill all the good bacterial life in the soil that helps in the growth of crops and plants.
• The dumping of xenobiotic chemicals into the soil also affects the local vegetation and wildlife as well as the health of humans like farmers.

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