What is acid deposition?

Acid Deposition

Ananya, Diya, Priyanka, Sahil

Prevention management strategies

• Environmental campaign called: ‘Green India Movement’ to preserve Taj Mahal and its surroundings
• India’s Supreme Court ordered thousands of factories and small, smoke generating places near Taj to be shut or moved
• Area of 10,400sq km around the Taj Mahal is defined to protect the monument from pollution
• Government provides funds for the buffer zones/areas which helps protect the soil and rest of the environment surrounding the Taj Mahal.

How does acid rain impact the natural environment and human infrastructure differently?

1) Environmental campaign called: ‘Green India Movement’ to preserve Taj Mahal and its surroundings

2) India’s Supreme Court ordered thousands of factories and small, smoke generating places near Taj to be shut or moved

3) Area of 10,400sq km around the Taj Mahal is defined to protect the monument from pollution

4)Government provides funds for the buffer zones/areas which helps protect the soil and rest of the environment surrounding the Taj Mahal.

What is acid deposition?

Combination of chemical and atmospheric phenomenon that occurs in gases containing sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides form acidic compounds. There are two types; wet and dry. While the accumulation of acids that fall to the Earth dissolved in water is wet deposition (Acid Rain, Acid Fog, Acid snow) while the accumulation of acidic particles that settle out of the atmosphere or acidic gases that are absorbed by plant tissues or other surfaces is known as dry deposition.

Impact of Acid Rain on Taj Mahal

Industries located in and around Agra like rubber processing, automobile, chemicals and mathura oil refinery have contributed for producing pollutants like Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen dioxide.

The phenomenon of acid rain corroding the marble is called Acid Rain.

Suspended particular matter such as the soot particles emitted by mathura oil refinery have contributed towards the yellowing of the marble.

Impact of acid rain on the natural environment

• Nutrients such as Ca, Mg and K are leached out of the soil
• It causes chlorophyll loss, which diminishes plant growth
• Sulphate and nitrate particles cause damage to the respiratory systems of living organisms
• Animals that cannot withstand chemical imbalances fail to reproduce and often become deformed due to decalcification of bones
• Algae growth is increased
• Dissolved aluminum ions damage the root hairs, so trees are unable to absorb as many nutrients

What pollution management strategies are being used to prevent the horrific repercussions?