Water Pollution In Mongolia Essay

Water Pollution in Mongolia

Introduction

Mongolia is a landlocked country between China and Russia, it is one of the least densely populated country in the world with a population of hardly 2.6 million people over a surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers. The primary source of income of people is from herding livestock that forms one third of the total population. Although the country has water sources enough for existing population but due to uneven distribution of sources, some area experienced the severe drought and some area abundance with water supplies. The groundwater forms the 82% of fresh water source to the people.( This paper will discuss about the source of water in Mongolia, cause of water pollution, pollutants involved, and consequences of pollutant on the Environment, on the local people and on the economy of the country and measures taken to mitigate water pollution.

1. What are the sources of water in Mongolia?

Answer: The principal sources of water in Mongolia is from rainfall and melting frozen snow in the north feeding five major river basins of the region and thereby forming ground water to form Lakes, like Lake Hovsgol-Asia’s second biggest lake by volume and the river Amur, the longest free flowing river in the Eastern

Some of the free flowing rivers were heavily polluted by directly dumping the industrial waste, run off of fertilizers and chemicals in the river and direct sewerage dumping practice done in the past. Therefore Mongolian central government came up with policies like National Water Program (2005-2015), the Programme on Urban Development and utilities, Government Policy on Ecology, Law on Environmental protection for reducing the negative impacts of pollution (2005-2015). (Balima,