FAQ - Stubble burning in India: Causes, effects, and solutions 

FAQ - Stubble burning in India: Causes, effects, and solutions | India Water Portal

This study predicts that sewage will become the dominant source of nitrogen pollution in rivers due to urbanisation and insufficient wastewater treatment technologies and infrastructure in worse case scenario projections in countries such as India.

Sewage will be the biggest polluter of river sub basins in countries such as India I Recent research on water pollution

Sewage will overtake agriculture as the biggest polluter of river sub basins in India

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Sustaining water quality in water supply initiatives

The pit lakes of Raniganj

Agriculture, an important sector of our economy accounts for 14 per cent of the nation’s GDP and about 11 per cent of its exports. India has the second largest arable land base (159.7 million hectares) after US and largest gross irrigated area (88 milion hectares) in the world. Rice, wheat, cotton, oilseeds, jute, tea, sugarcane, milk and potatoes are the major agricultural commodities produced. More importantly, over 60 per cent of the country’s population, comprising several million small farming households, depends on agriculture as a principal income source and land continues to be the main asset for livelihood security. 