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What social and cultural actions are affecting the river? What changes might the people living in the southwestern U.S. need to adopt?

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Water/river pollution problems are gaining attention worldwide because of its socio-cultural, economic, health, livelihoods and others issue related with degradation of water resources.

In the proposed research it is planned to understand people’s behaviors and perception to water pollution and to proposed better options and management system for sustainable development. In course of population increase and many other development activities, pressure on river/surface water also increase and it is much higher in developing county. Pollution have many point and nonpoint source. A thematic source of pollution shown in figure 2.2

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Figure 2.2 Pollution Source

(Source; Sharma & Moog 2005, Raj 2010)

Water in general exist in abundance but its distribution in quantity and quality is not equitable globally by nature or for human activities and by nature water is central to human development but its’ always been interrupted due to human behaviors.

2.5.1 Human behavior environmental degradation and stress on water and other local natural resources

Trade and business has historic relation of environmental and ecological degradation. The neoclassical economic development endorsed continues economic development through stimulated trade. However, for sustainability it is must to acknowledge (1) the importance of preserving the identity and integrity of economic systems in different regions of the world through enlarging as much as possible self-sufficiency and equity assessed at national and regional levels; and (2) the importance of including respect for biospheric equilibria as one criterion to be used to regulate world economic activity and trade. North-South trade analysis show that, the true origin of current ecological crisis lies in a deep change in the perception of the relation between humans and nature that affects the mode of technological development of modern society (Mario & Kazo , 2006).

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