Environmental Issues in East and Southern Asia China and India

Overpopulation is the main source of a variety of environmental issues

Water Pollution Rivers are polluted by a point source like industrial waste or raw sewage The pollution can also come from non-point sources like agriculture runoff or runoff from cities

The Ganges River is one of India’s most important rivers as well as it’s most polluted

Are Biogas the solution? Only 250 of 4,000 large cities have sanitation in India 80% of all disease in India can be traced to water infected by human waste One city, Banares, dumps over 200 million gallons of raw sewage a DAY in the Ganges

Yangtze River 42% of pollution in the Yangtze is raw sewage…25 billion tons last year (265 billion gallons) The majority of the rest is agricultural and industrial runoff

The air over there China produces over 75% of their electricity from coal China’s fast economic development increases demand for electricity which results in increased pollution

A GLOBAL Impact

Natural Disasters too… The Huang He (Yellow River) is also called China’s Sorrow because of the many deaths that have resulted from its seasonal floods Spring rains and snow melt causes the annual flood