{"id":86713,"date":"2019-04-08T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2019-04-08T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:30:36","slug":"no-end-to-discolouration-of-periyar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-end-to-discolouration-of-periyar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No end to discolouration of Periyar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Discolouration of water of the Periyar River, Kerala\nhas continued unprecedently, thus raising concerns among environmentalists. Environmentalists\nallege that that discolouration was caused due to excess discharge of chemical\nwastes into the river by industries located on the banks.<\/li><li>The Periyar River is the longest river in\nKerala. It originates from Sivagiri Hills of Western Ghats and flows through\nthe Periyar National Park and drains into the Periyar Lake.<\/li><li>According to environmentalists, the\ndiscolouration is due to the poor quality of water as a result of\neutrophication. Eutrophication is the enrichment of a lake or other water body with\nchemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or\nboth.<\/li><li>Eutrophication occurs naturally in lake as they\nage through the geological time. However, human activities accelerate the rate\nand extent of eutrophication. Runoff from agriculture and development,\npollution from septic systems and sewers, and other human-related activities\nincrease the flux of both inorganic nutrients and organic substances into lakes\nor water bodies thus resulting in eutrophication.<\/li><li>Excessive nutrients in water bodies result in\nalgal bloom- rapid increase in the population of algae. Algal blooms limit\nlight penetration, thus reducing growth and resulting in death of plants in\nlittoral zones. Further when algae die and decay, it results in a foul smell\nand discolouration of water.<\/li><li>Further, high rates of photosynthesis associated\nwith eutrophication deplete dissolved inorganic carbon and raise pH to extreme\nlevels in water bodies. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discolouration of water of the Periyar River, Kerala has continued unprecedently, thus raising concerns among environmentalists. Environmentalists allege that that discolouration was caused due to excess discharge of chemical wastes into the river by industries located on the banks. The Periyar River is the longest river in Kerala. It originates from Sivagiri Hills of Western&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-end-to-discolouration-of-periyar-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No end to discolouration of Periyar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4302,4303,4304],"class_list":["post-86713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-algal-bloom","tag-eutrophication","tag-periyar-river","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700386399},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86713","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}