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Describe how urbanization creates air and water pollution in India.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Contemporary Issues

Abel Wolman's account of the metabolism of cities supplies the organising idea: a city is a set of material inputs — energy, water, food, construction material — drawn in and pushed out again as waste, so the two waste streams are a fixed accounting consequence of urban growth, not an incidental by-product. Pollution appears when…

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  • Urbanization as the generating process, not merely the setting
  • The air stream
  • The water stream
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