Expressing our devotion towards Yamuna

                                                   Expressing our devotion towards Yamuna

Introduction

 

Researchers from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP), in 2017 gave a report that more than half of India’s population have no access to potable, pure drinking water. India’s water situation is alarming and powers the health concerns and brings agricultural production and employment to set back, leading an increasing number of people to poverty.

 

India’s water crisis is a menace that millions of people are facing. As the summer is approaching, accompanied by heat waves and dry spells, the need for clean and accessible water becomes extremely necessary.

 

The Yamuna is not just a river for Delhi, she is also our mother as she sustains a vast ecosystem that is functional within the city. As a result of this, the ‘I Love Yamuna Campaign’ is launched, with the environment and forest department jointly doing initiation of this noble effort. The government has an intention to encourage Delhiites to participate actively in tree plantation drives and river cleaning activities through this initiative.”

 

This can be achieved by doing sewage treatment with the help of microbes.

 

The Ministry of Environment and Forests has also started

Yamuna Action Plan to save this river of our India

from pollution. In these plans, it is suggested to build a large number

of sewage treatment plants in order that only the treated sewage may be discharged

into the rivers.

 

You will be benefitted by reading this blogpost as you will come to know the importance of cleaning Yamuna river as well as the method of sewage treatment which will help in cleaning Yamuna River.

 

What is sewage treatment by Microbes?

 

The large quantities of waste water are generated everyday in

cities and towns. Human excreta forms a major component of this waste water.

This municipal waste-water is also termed sewage. It consists of large

amounts of organic matter and microbes. Many of which are pathogenic.

This untreated sewage cannot be discharged directly into natural

water bodies like rivers and streams.

Hence, before disposal, treatment of sewage is being done in sewage treatment plants (STPs)

to make it less polluting. Treatment of waste water is done with the help of

heterotrophic microbes which are naturally present in

the sewage. This sewage treatment includes combined actions of:

1.      Aerobic microbes which firstly reduce the

BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) of the effluent, BOD refers to

the amount of the oxygen that will be consumed if all the organic

matter in one liter of water are oxidised by bacteria. Till the BOD is reduced the sewage water is being treated. The BOD test is measurement of the

rate of uptake of oxygen by micro-organisms in a sample of water

and indirectly, BOD is the measure of the organic matter present

in the water. The greater the BOD of the waste water, more the waste water has polluting

potential.

2.      And other different kind

of bacteria, which grow anaerobically, which do the digestion of the bacteria and the fungi

in the sludge. During this digestion, bacteria does production of mixture of gases

such as methane, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide.

 

References:

1.      NCERT 12^th book

2.      Delhi govt launches ‘I Love Yamuna’ drive to clean river

By

HT Correspondent

 

 

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A Deep Dive Into Drug/Alcohol Abuse during adolescence

                                             A Deep Dive Into Drug/Alcohol Abuse during adolescence

Introduction

In the aftermath of a breakup, people can find themselves obsessively focusing on their ex-partners. Thus, you may spend more time and energy on trying to see your ex, compulsively check in on them online, and feel like you’re losing self-control. You might feel, in other words, like you’re addicted to your ex.

The reason for this behavior may lie deep within our brain’s circuitry. Addiction studies have found that drug cravings increased levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, a part of the brain associated with reward — and the same thing happens when we think about or see an ex.

Adolescence is deemed to be ‘a period’ and ‘a process’ during which a child becomes mature in terms of his/her attitudes and believes for effective participation in society.

A child’s natural curiosity motivates him/her to experiment. This is complicated further the bizzare notion that there are benefits of alcohol or drug use. Thus the beginning of first use of drugs or alcohol may be out of curiosity, but later child starts using these to escape facing problems. Stress which occurs from pressures to excel in academics or examinations, has played a significant role in promoting youngsters to go for alcohol and drugs.

The immediate adverse effects of drugs and alcohol abuse can be observed through reckless behavior, vandalism and violence.

By reading this blogpost you will be able to know the adverse effects and disadvantages of drug/alcohol abuse and thus you will acquire a mindset to avoid/eliminate drug alcohol abuse.

What is drug/alcohol abuse?

The use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs or alcohol for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used, or in excessive amounts. Substance abuse may lead to social, physical, emotional, and job-related problems.

Habits are the actions that are initiated by cues/stimulus, such as a time of day, an activity, or a location. They result in the feel-good reward that, through repetition, makes the connection between cue and reward firmly in the brain.

When your brain recognizes a relation between action and satisfaction, it documents that information in area of the brain which is called the basal ganglia. This is also the area of the brain which is responsible for emotions and memories, whereas conscious decisions are made in the prefrontal cortex.

Due to the perceived benefits, drugs are frequently used repeatedly. Addiction is deemed to be psychological attachment to certain effects- such as euphoria and a temporary feeling of well- being which are perceived by adolescents to be associated with drugs and alcohol.

These effects of drugs/alcohol cause people to consume even when these are not needed, or even when their usage becomes self-harming.

With repeated usage of drugs, the tolerance level of the receptors present in our body increases. As a consequence, the receptors display the pharmacologic effects of drugs or alcohol at higher doses leading to greater intake and thus addiction. It should be borne in mind that once these drugs are used, can lead to addiction for long period (even lifetime).

Thus, the drugs and alcohol teleports the user into a vicious circle leading to their regular use(abuse) from which he/she may not be able to remove himself/herself.

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Solution to the problem

Solution to the problem is that the help is there in the form of highly qualified psychologists, psychiatrists, and de-addiction and rehabilitation programmes in order to help individuals who have unfortunately got in the trouble of drug/alcohol abuse. With the aid of such help, the affected individual who is affected can be freed of the problem completely with sufficient efforts and will power which will lead to a perfectly normal and healthy life.

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References:

1.      1.The Science of Habit. Medically reviewed by Debra Rose Wilson, Ph.D., MSN, R.N., IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT — By Stacey McLachlan on December 22, 2021.

2.      2.An Overview of Breakup Depression

 By Kendra Cherry  Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD

                                                                                           

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