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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 32-521
Full Name: Bechan Sharma
Position: Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Allahabad-211002, India
Country: INDIA
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Title of the Paper: Water pollution with special reference to pesticides contamination in India
Authors as they appear in the Paper: ANJU AGRAWAL1, RAVI S. PANDEY2 and BECHAN SHARMA3#
Email addresses of all the authors: anjuaa@rediffmail.com, rspandey2004@yahoo.com, sharmabi@yahoo.com
Number of paper pages: 30
Abstract: Abstract:- The term pesticide covers a wide range of compounds including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, rodenticides, molluscicides, nematocides, plant growth regulators and others. Pesticides are used to control weeds, pests and diseases in crops (including grassland). It is normal practice for several different pesticides to be applied to a single crop in any given growing season. Different farming practices require a range of pesticides. If the credits of pesticides include enhanced economic potential in terms of increased production of food and fiber, and amelioration of vector-borne diseases, then their debits have resulted in serious health implications to man and his environment. Despite ban on application, their continued and indiscriminate use is ever on rise. Pesticides are a serious hazard to living systems because of their fat solubility and rapid bioaccumulation in non-target organisms. At high dosages they not only kill insects and other invert!
ebrates, but birds, fish and mammals as well. At lower levels they inflict a range of serious sub lethal effects. The factors affecting water pollution with pesticides and their residues include drainage, rainfall, microbial activity, soil temperature, treatment surface, application rate as well as the solubility, mobility and half life of pesticides. In India organochlorine insecticides such as DDT and HCH constitute more than 70% of the pesticides used at present. Reports from Delhi, Bhopal and other cities and some rural areas have indicated presence of alarming level of pesticides in fresh water systems as well as bottled drinking mineral water samples .The effects of pesticides pollution in riverine systems and drinking water in India has been discussed in this review.
Keywords: pesticides, pollution, water, riverine systems, toxicity, management
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