Jeopardy of Indian Waters: A Review

Juhi Firdous^1, , Yatindra Kumar Mathur², Mubashir Jeelani², Seema Azmat³ and Adnan Aziz⁴

¹Department of Advanced Sciences, National Institute of Medical Sciences, Rajasthan, Jaipur, 303121

²Department of Environmental Sciences, AAAM Bemina Degree College, Srinagar 190018

³Department of Environmental engineering, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India, 140413

⁴Department of Biochemistry, S P College, Srinagar, India, 190001

Cite this paper:
Juhi Firdous, Yatindra Kumar Mathur, Mubashir Jeelani, Seema Azmat and Adnan Aziz. Jeopardy of Indian Waters: A Review. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2020; 8(6):472-477. doi: 10.12691/aees-8-6-20

Abstract

Microplastic pollution is a new emerging problem to our generation, with lack of proper disposal and tones of production. Every year tones of plastic is disposed in the water bodies and which gets weathered and results in the production of microplastics, which when ingested by aquatic organisms leads to their mortality and many serious issues. The microplastics are good adsorbents and absorb all the chemical and metals in the water causing mortality in fishes. They also act as pathogen carriers and lead to the water born diseases. Our review study finds that there is a need to evaluate the effects on the fresh water organisms as the literature on fresh water is scarce.

Keywords:
Microplastic pollution micro plastics India first report lakes bioaccumulation

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