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Union Earth Sciences ministry to study marine litter issue
Why is it in news?
- The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences will begin work on gauging marine litter and their sources along the country’s coastline.
Details
- India had joined the United Nations’ ‘Clean Seas’ programme and the ministry’s Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services and another Chennai-based institute would work on the field of marine litter.
- Calling marine pollution a serious national problem ministry was working with the USA to develop an emergency alert system to predict air pollution emergencies.
- Along the coast, the ministry has a programme to measure sea water quality. We have been doing it for over 25 years at 25 places. It has shown good results and we now know where water quality is poor or good.
- India and the US had signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2008 to have scientific and technical cooperation in Earth observations and Earth sciences.
Source
- The Hindu