TABLE OF CONTENTS Pollution of the environment is one of the most serious ecological crises to which we are subjected today. The three basic amenities for living organisms are air, land or soil, and water. In the past, these amenities were pure, virgin, undisturbed, uncontaminated, and basically most hospitable for living organisms. But the situation is just the reverse today, because progress in science and technology is also leading to pollution of the environment and serious ecological imbalance which, in the long run, may prove disastrous for mankind. Environmental pollution is the result of urban-industrial technological revolution and speedy exploitation of every bit of natural resources. The craze of progress in agriculture, industry, transportation and technology is taken as the general criterion of development of any nation. Such activities of man have created adverse effects on all living organisms in the biosphere. Rapid industrialization has left with us polluted rivers, contaminated soil, depleted wild life, and exhausted natural resources. Today the environment has become foul, contaminated, undesirable, and therefore, harmful for the health of living organisms, including man. The unlimited rapacious exploitation of nature by man has disturbed the delicate ecological balance existing between living and nonliving components on the planet Earth. The root cause of environmental pollution has been man's misbehavior with nature under the false impression that he is the master of nature. This undesirable situation created by man has threatened the survival of man himself and other living biota on the earth. The term environment, as far as...
