VPE 511: Environment and Environmental Hygiene (2+1)

SOIL POLLUTION

• Our Globe consists of 29% land remaining eater. Out of which the fertile land is very less. Up to 19^th century a good ecological balance was maintained the available land was sufficient to support the population. At present the population of about 6 billion it become a burden for Mother Earth.
• Besides the population, industrialization, urbanization, modernization, use of unethical practices of insecticides, fertilizers etc have created a great concern over land and is degrading fast in an unimaginable speed.
• Soil pollution is the result of urban technological revolution and speedy exploitation of every bit of natural resources.