{"id":160051,"date":"2022-01-09T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=160051"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:16:29","slug":"answered-what-are-the-environmental-implications-of-the-reclamation-of-water-bodies-into-urban-land-use-explain-with-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-are-the-environmental-implications-of-the-reclamation-of-water-bodies-into-urban-land-use-explain-with-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] What are the environmental implications of the reclamation of Water bodies into urban land use? Explain with examples."},"content":{"rendered":"

Land reclamation is one of the most\u202f<\/span>consequential fields of human induced environmental transformation<\/span><\/b>. In this light reclamation of water bodies into urban land use has following\u202f<\/span>environmental consequences<\/span><\/b>:\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Damage to water ecology<\/span><\/b>: Urban land transformation leads to\u202f<\/span>creation of residential, commercial buildings, such as houses, restaurants around water bodies<\/span><\/b>, causing degradation of water ecology and influx of nutrients. For example,\u202f<\/span>Dal Lake in Sri Nagar<\/span><\/b>.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Increased incidence of flooding<\/span><\/b>:\u00a0Water bodies act as sponges for extra rainfall, reclamation of water bodies,\u202f<\/span>has\u202fled\u202fto higher incidences of floods<\/span><\/b>. A case in point is\u202f<\/span>Mumbai, which lost 71% of its wetlands between<\/span><\/b>\u202f1970 to 2014.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Species extinction<\/span><\/b>: Land reclamation of\u202f<\/span>Hussain Sagar Lake in Telangana<\/span><\/b>, have increased the\u202f<\/span>BOD to 116 mg\/l.\u202f<\/span><\/b>It is detrimental for not only\u202f<\/span>aquatic species<\/span><\/b>\u202fbut also for\u202f<\/span>aerial fauna<\/span><\/b>.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Drinking water pollution<\/span><\/b>:\u00a0Water bodies have purifying effect through buffering out contaminants.\u00a0Encroachment of water bodies lead to concentration of harmful chemicals such as\u202f<\/span>arsenic, copper, chromium<\/span><\/b>\u202fin the water table. For example,\u202f<\/span>encroachment of water bodies in West Bengal<\/span><\/b>\u202fhave led\u202f<\/span>to high level of arsenic pollution<\/span><\/b>.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Environmental hazards<\/span><\/b>: Water reclamation for urban land use in the coastal areas may\u202f<\/span>aggravate the incidents of earthquakes<\/span><\/b>\u202fetc., due to\u202f<\/span>soil liquefaction and land subsidence<\/span><\/b>.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Water bodies play an important part in sustaining the ecology.\u00a0In this light their conservation through\u202f<\/span>waste water treatment, non-encroachment, reduced anthropogenic stress<\/span><\/b>\u202fetc., is an imperative.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Land reclamation is one of the most\u202fconsequential fields of human induced environmental transformation. In this light reclamation of water bodies into urban land use has following\u202fenvironmental consequences:\u202f\u202f\u00a0 Damage to water ecology: Urban land transformation leads to\u202fcreation of residential, commercial buildings, such as houses, restaurants around water bodies, causing degradation of water ecology and influx of… Continue reading [Answered] What are the environmental implications of the reclamation of Water bodies into urban land use? Explain with examples.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10606],"class_list":["post-160051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-mains-2021-gs-1-solutions","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":81,"cached_at":1698379833,"cached_date":1698475799},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}