Question

How is the carpet area for infiltration decreasing the urbanisation

Answer 1

Answer:

Infiltration is the process by which the soil allows the water, mostly rain water, to enter inside it and store the water for further utilizing it for the roots of the plants to grow and also for the living organisms under the soil.

It also increases the ground water table of the soil, which could be used later on.

The increase in urbanization is causing a wide spread construction of buildings and other associated structures, thus, affecting the carpet area for infiltration at an alarming rate.

• The activities of human beings, in the process of making every society more urbanized are increasing day by day. Various unnatural or synthetic materials are mixed with the natural soil to build houses, industries, schools etc. Since urbanization brings in the advancement of new technologies which in turn causes pollution, global warming etc.

• Building of various fancy parks require importing of artificial or synthetic soils to meet certain aesthetic requirements this in turn may affect the process of infiltration of natural soils. During the course of time the placement of these mixed soils, which are having different pore structures as compared to natural soils, in the urban areas cause the runoff of natural moisture from the surface which in turn causes the soil to become stiff.

• The urbanization and modernization also lead to the building of modern roads and drainage system using cement and concrete, which affects the natural process of water infiltration into the soil.

• Another very important factor is the fast cutting down of trees to increase the area of living. The roots of the trees help in water retention thereby causing the water infiltration to be very effective.

Hence, considering all these above-mentioned factors we can say that with the increase of urbanization, the carpet area of water infiltration is decreasing.