1. Agroecology
Environmental Issues:
Water Pollution

2. Sustainable Agriculture and how it
addresses the current
environmental Issues

3. Environmental issues
 Water pollution
 Climate change
 Air pollution
 Biodiversity Issues

4. Water Pollution

5. Outline

6. What is water pollution?

7. Theact of introducing
contaminate into source
of water
-Turn water into dangerous
and unsafe for neither direct
nor indirect consumption

8. Causes

9. Extensive Tillage (Clive A. Edwards et.
al.,1990)
Silage effluent (Clive A. Edwards et. al.,1990)
Fertilizers (Deshmukh, S.N., 2010)
Pesticides & herbicides (Clive A.
Edwards et. al.,1990)

10. Decomposition of organic waste
(D. Zitzelsberger et. al.,1997)
- Silage effluent (Clive A. Edwards et. al.,1990)
- Livestock Effluent
Chemical waste (Bjorn Lomborg et.
al., 1978)

12. Silage effluent

13. Soil Erosion

14. Effects

15. contamination of water sources
(Clive A. Edwards et. al.,1990)
- drinking water
-daily uses
-food crop
Eutrophication (TP Kulikova et. al., 2004)

16. Poisoning of aquatic life (Clive A.
Edwards et. al.,1990)
Effect the agriculture activity
(V. Ratna Reddy et. Al., 2005; Bhagirath Behera et.
Al., 2005)

17. Death of Aquatic Life by water pollution

18. Eutrophication

19. Recommendations

20.  Law ( LM Wenner et. al., 1972)
 universal filtration (sayali joshi et. al., 2008;
sandeep joshi et. al., 2008)
 bio-pesticides (Clive A. Edwards et. al., 1990)
 bio-fertilizers (Clive A. Edwards et. al., 1990)
 cover cropping (TJ Logan et. al., 1993)

21. Conclusion

22. Water pollution is a growing concern in
society today. As water is a vital
resource to sustain humanity, it needs
to be conserved. Agricultural practices
that cause water pollution should be
reduced or eliminated and other
alternatives should be utilized in order
to combat this growing problem in
society today. It is the eleventh hour
and we need to take action before it is
too late.

23. References
1) Deshmukh, S.N. (2010). Organic Farming:
Principles, prospects and problems.
Jodhpur: Agrobios
2) Clive A. Edwards et. al. (1990). Sustainable
Agricultural Systems. Florida: St Lucie Press
3) Arunachalam & Netaji Seetharamam.
(2004). Sustainable Agriculture: Indigenous
Practice for Natural Resource
Management. Jodhpur : Agrobios

24. Thank You!
prepared by:
Benn
Jacob
Jac
Amat