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problems. Keeping these problems in mind, specialist reports are

being prepared against these government appointed committees.
Dams are negatively affecting the Ramsar swamp locations in India.
However, there is no reporting of this to the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD), nor is there any alleviation. Freshwater ecosystems

such as rivers which are unpolluted are being overgrown with life and
provide a home to a variety of marine as well as terrestrial plants and
animals that count on each other’s surroundings for diet and survival
to sustain the ecological balance of the river.

Rivers donate significant natural services to humans. Creek terrains
have served as areas for accommodations and the growth of civilizations
for ages. The requirement of the potable water is increasing which
has created imbalance in the natural waste management cycle in the

water.

Rivers in metropolitan India: -

Rivers in urban areas are facing numerous difficulties. It is in the form
of sewage combustion, garbage dumping, invasion, channelization,

etc. All these concerned aspects harshly affect the quality of spring as
well as the innate functioning of a river directing to losing the habitat
for the number of plants and varmints species. The loss of habitat
affects both ,flora and fauna. Right from animal species that are

visible to the naked eye and the tiny or microscopic ones that live in
the rivers are suffering due to lack of habitat The consequences are
evident and can be investigated through visual compliance.

However, small-sized animals like snails, oceanic vermins, and even

microscopic ones such as ‘rotifers’ are understood to be equally
or moderately affected by small changes in water quality such as

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