CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The discharge of domestic sewage, releasing of municipal wastes, and effluents from the dyeing and bleaching industries are the major sources of pollutants including toxic metals in the Noyyal River and its associated wetlands (Srinivasan et al.

Detailed explanation-2: -Specifically, the city’s dyeing and bleaching units that add colour and flair to its apparel have turned the once-beautiful Noyyal river into a toxic sewer, and destroyed vast areas of agricultural land the water body once sustained.

Detailed explanation-3: -It rises from the Vellingiri hills in the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, very close to Kerala border, and flows through many villages and the cities of Coimbatore, and Tirupur finally draining into the Kaveri River at Noyyal, a village in Karur district named after the river itself.

Detailed explanation-4: -Increasing the urbanization and industrialization has reason for create a very large point of water pollution. Agro – based industries has seriously damaged surface water quality’s, even in many rivers and groundwater has been contaminated.