Draw and label the Ganges and Yangtze Rivers on a map
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Draw and label the Ganges and Yangtze Rivers on a map
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Ganges and Yangtze Rivers
Pollution
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GPS
• SS7G10 The student will discuss environmental issues across Southern and Eastern Asia.
• a. Describe the causes and effects of pollution on the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers.
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E. Q.
• How does pollution affect the Ganges and Yangtze Rivers and the people who live near them?
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D. Q.
• What makes a river polluted?
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Ganges River - India
• 1557 miles long (2506 km)
• Starts in an ice cave on the southern slopes of the Himalayas
• Flows eastward & empties into the Bay of Bengal.
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Importance of Ganges River
– Farmers depend on the river for their crops.
– Millions depend on river for washing, cooking,
drinking & to carry away their waste.
– Many worship the Ganges as a goddess, whose waters will cleanse them of sin and help them attain moksha, or salvation, by carrying their ashes to heaven.
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Threats to Ganges River
• Pollution
• Rapidly modernizing India– Industrial needs– Water needs
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Pollution from Cities
• Local industries dump toxic chemicals into the river
• Sewage treatment plants dump raw sewage into the river
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Problems:
• nearly 1 billion liters per day - of mostly untreated raw sewage
• Inadequate cremation procedures:– large number of partially burnt or unburnt
corpses floating down the Ganga
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Effects of Pollution:
• People suffer from skin diseases and other health problems
• Decreased farm harvests
• Livestock become sick
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A woman with a skin disease rests near offerings and trash on the banks of the
Ganges in Kanpur, India.
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Raw sewage, shown as the darker section of water, flowing into the
Ganges at Kanpur.
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Yangtze (Chang Jiang) River - China
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Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) - China
• Longest river in Asia: over 6,300 kilometers long
• Third longest river in the world
• Empties into East China Sea
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Importance of Yangtze River
• Has largest hydro-electric dam in world
• Important for transportation – 1 of world’s busiest waterways
• Important for farming
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Threats to Yangtze River
• Pollution from industrial and agricultural discharges, along with sewage and ship waste:– Sewage and industrial waste dumping totalled
23.4 billion tons in 2001
many industrial enterprises established in 1960s-1970s have become the main sources of river pollution.
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Effects of Pollution• Numbers of animal species declining: from 126
to 52 species
• Causes diseases like cancer
• Drinking water of 500 cities threatened
• 3 Gorges Dam Reservoir: seriously polluted with pesticides, fertilizers and sewage from passenger boats
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Pollution
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Summary: Thinking MapCause and Effect Flow Map
Causes of Pollution on the
Ganges and Yangtze Rivers
Effects of Pollution on the
Ganges and Yangtze Rivers