Question

What the positive and negative impact of the Indus river?

Answer 1

The positive impacts are demonstrated in the following possible benefits and uses of the multipurpose river valley projects:
provides work
eliminates flooding
provides power
provides water for human consumption
helps to conserve water
provides water for agriculture
provides water for industrial uses
provides for a fishery where one may not have existed before
changes the ecology of the region
opens new areas to agriculture
Negative impacts may include:
they lead to the displacement of human, plants, animals, chiefly from small tribal communities;
disrupt downstream fisheries;
increase the risk of earthquakes;
submerge forest land;
increase the spread of insect-borne diseases; and
threaten the fragile regional ecosystem through reducing, the flow of water from the rivers into the seas.
These projects initially devastate human lives and biodiversity by inundating thousands of acres of forests and agricultural land.
They degrade the fertile agricultural soils due to continuous irrigation (rather the seasonal irrigation which is dependent on the monsoon), and salinization, making the soil toxic to many plant species. .