How this got in "religion & spirituality" I'm not sure, but let's go for it anyway.
Since rivers flow, if we stop putting pollution into them, they will get clean faster than the lakes and oceans that don't flow. However, the "we" in this case means everyone on the flood plain of the river, not just the river itself. The river is the drainage of a larger area than is immediately apparent by looking at a satellite photo of it.
So the next question is how do "we" pass laws that protect our rivers. And the answer is we already have them, for the most part. What we need to do is enforce them. There are strict rules which apply to commercial ventures regarding pollution control. There are less strict -- and less easily inforced -- rules concerning private homeowners and renters. It will ultimately take people changing their minds about the significance of "just that one little can of turpentine," etc.
Many problems which are insignificant in isolation have terrible cumulative effect. For example, it really is not going to do me all that much harm if I eat a cookie, is it? I mean, I'm not a diabetic -- yet. But the cumulative effect of one cookie and then one piece of Godiva chocolate and then one tiny little serving of ice cream . . . now I need a XXXL tee shirt!
So it goes with pollution. You don't feel guilty about "just this once" putting something toxic in your ordinary trash, to go to the land fill. But you and a few thousand of your neighbors all having that same "little" lapse in care puts enough toxic waste into the landfill that the water table is polluted, and the river that drains it. And, for that matter, the ocean that the river dumps into.
2007-04-06 00:01:23
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answered by auntb93 7
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Government can do a little in this respect. See the abysmal level of contamination of all the river system. Each individual in society is responsible for preserving the Eco systems. Industrialization, indiscriminate felling of trees, discharging effluents and harmful chemicals in the rivers is the greatest folly which is man made due to greed.
2007-04-05 23:54:24
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answered by nagarajan s 4
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Rivers are part of the cycle of water.
River systems have only a limited capacity to deal with and purify the waste products of life.
Industrial systems need to be forced to process their waste before they reach river systems, and cities of people need to treat sewage so that the water returned to rivers doesn't excede the system's capacity to render it chemically and biologically harmless.
And yes, this does have a lot to do with religion and spirituality. I'm an Australian. My guess is you might be Indian. We're learning a lot about the importance of healthy rivers lately here in Australia.
2007-04-06 00:09:42
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answered by Anonymous
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Where are the stranded Polar Bears? How do you know any of this stuff is true? Better to try to find 50 people telling the truth about the environment. It will be hard. By the way, environmental and climatological questions do NOT have a political solution. Getting 50 blowhards together to pollute the environment in some luxury resort boardroom somewhere wont do squat for the environment.
2016-05-18 03:37:02
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answered by dionna 3
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Simple. Do not pollute it. Do not let sewerage into it.
Do not allow cattle and people to bathe,wash .And disallow industrial pollutants into it.
Allow rain water and other feed water to enter it.
Allow fish to grow.
Have trees planted on the banks for protection and shadow in addition to strengthening the banks.
Then the rivers will survive and breath.
Otherwise after another 50 years man will die without water.
The farmers In Rajasthan have revived some rivers.
2007-04-06 01:07:51
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answered by rajan l 6
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Your question has no connection with religion and spirituality,however I would like to answer it as you wish.
You should not throw garbage into the river. Avoid human waste to be thrown into the river.Do not throw bodies of dead animals to the river, like rats, dead dogs, dead snakes and all dead bodies.
Above all, do not put or throw dirty things to the river.
You are like in the grade school asking this question to a grade pupil.
jtm
2007-04-05 23:59:01
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answered by Jesus M 7
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The only way is to eradicate CORRUPTION and you will find the complete machinery working. There are enough inputs with the concerned people, but it is unfortunate that our department officials as well as our industrialists are short sighted.
2007-04-06 00:01:35
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answered by Omesh M 1
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Don't discharge effluent or anything nasty directly into a watercourse.
Build more effluent treatment plants - MBR type are often the best option as they use very little land.
2007-04-05 23:57:14
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answered by Modern Major General 7
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educate/train/punish the public about water purity
2007-04-06 00:14:55
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answered by Anonymous
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stop farming too much, don't put down the sink any chemical
2007-04-05 23:53:53
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answered by Sυ$ιє 5
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