Describe the causes and effects of air pollution and flooding in India and China.

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Pollution in Asia

• Describe the causes and effects of air pollution
  and flooding in India and China.
• Describe the causes and effects of pollution on
  the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers.

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Air Pollution

• Asian Brown Cloud
• 2 mile deep brown haze
• Respiratory problems
• Climatic Changes
• Floods
• Acid rain
• Blocks Sunlight
• Destroys crops

• Causes
• Industrialization
• High population in Urban areas
• Burning wood and other biomass material
• Many areas lack electricity or other cleaner
  energy sources

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Asian Brown Cloud
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Air Pollution

• China is the worlds fastest growing
  economieswith no environmental regulation
• India has some 500,000 annual deaths from indoor
  air pollution
• Bangladesh has about 100,000 annual deaths from
  indoor air pollution

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Flooding

• Monsoon winds bring heavy amounts of seasonal
  rainfall
• Indian Floods
• (Alternate)

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Ganges River

• 1600 miles from India, Bangladesh, to the Bay of
  Bengal
• Main source of transportation for over 400
  million people
• Agricultural areas near the river
• Chemical fertilizers
• Animal fertilizers

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Ganges River

• Indias most sacred river
• Used for funeral rites
• Cremated bodies
• (not) cremated bodies
• Used by millions for drinking and bathing
• Poor sewage systems drain directly into the river
• Ganges Action Plan 1985
• Water treatment plans attempting to clean-up the
  river

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Yangtze River

• Chinas longest river
• - 4,000 miles from the Northwest regions to the
  East China Sea
• Passes through over 185 towns and villages (400
  million people)
• Poor sewage drains millions of gallons into the
  river
• Fertilizer run-off into the river
• Millions of people use the river to catch fish
  (most have been contaminated by factory
  chemicals)

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Yangtze River

• Three Gorges Dam
• Pros
• Provide millions with Hydroelectric power
• Control flooding in certain areas
• Cons
• Many plants and animals living near the river may
  face extinction
• Built on an area prone to Earthquakes!
• Three Gorges Dam or (Alternate)

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Summarize

• Describe the causes and effects of air pollution
  and flooding in India and China.
• Describe the causes and effects of pollution on
  the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers.