Alarming rise in coastal pollution

A recent report by TERI has drawn attention to the rising levels of pollution in India's long coastline which poses a threat to the health and wellbeing of human and other forms of life. The survival of some species of both flora and fauna may be in danger because the ecosystems that support them may disappear. The report has noted that large amounts of waste water and agricultural run-off which are let into the coastline are increasingly polluting the waters. Industrial effluents, municipal sewage, ship-breaking debris, solid waste including plastics, oil spills and various other pollutants have made the coastal waters murky and unhealthy.