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| Monitoring
of Indian Coastal Water - Summary Report |
| Foreword
India has a coastline
of over 6000 kms. long. Nearly tweny five percent of the country's population
lives near coastal areas, depending largely on marine resources/activities for
livelihood. To maintain and utilise the resources that are available at the land-water
interface on a sustainable basis, it is imperative to adopt appropriate pollution
control measures.
Formulation of a rational approach for effective control
of coastal water pollution must necessarily be backed up by the following - Inventory
of land-based sources and coastal outfalls transporting pollutants from the land
to the seas
- Sectorwise
identification of different uses of coastal waters, zoning/classifying them in
terms of respective designated-best-use classes {fulfilling commensurate water
quality criteria) ;
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Assessment of actual state and extent of pollution, if any, in coastal waters
through systematic monitoring.
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The Central
Pollution Control Board has made an inventory and setorwise classification/zoning
of coastal waters in terms of their respective designated- best-uses. These were
brought out in the five-volume publications titled 'Use Classification of Indian
Coasts and Conflicts' : Part I-V, under Coastal Pollution Control Series {COPOCS/1-5/1982-87).
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The present report provides an overview of the state of coastal water
quality in India. This has been prepared, after necessary processing and synthesis
of data collected by different executing agencies of the Project on 'Monitoring
of Indian Coastal Waters' over a period of four years. The Eastern Regional Office
of the Central Boa~d initiated the work with an Expert Team consisting of Dr .
A.K.Ghosh, Director, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, Dr. A.K.Basu, Director
, Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune, and Dr. S.B.Sen Sarma, I Director,
Geological Survey of India, {Marine Wing), Calcutta. .
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Dilip Biswas Chairman, CPCB | |
