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Identify the incorrectly matched pair with respect to contamination of water
1. Minamata disease: Mercury
2. Blue baby syndrome: excessive nitrates
3. Black foot disease: excessive arsenic
4. Dental caries: excessive fluoride

Subtopic:  Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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Ecological sanitation, also known as ecosan, is a new paradigm in sanitation that
1. eliminates the use of conventional pesticides to decrease environmental insult
2. recognizes human excreta and household waste water as resources that can and are recovered, treated, and reused
3. emphasizes the disposal of solid wastes in sanitary landfill sites
4. emphasizes the need for strict legislation against polluting industries

Subtopic:  Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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Match each item in Column I with one item in Column II and choose the correct answer from the code given below:

A. Air [Prevention and Control of Pollution] Act a. 1981
B. Water [Prevention and Control of Pollution] Act b. 1974
C. Environment [Protection] Act c. 1986
D. Montreal Protocol d. 1987

Codes:

A B C D
1. a b c d
2. b a d c
3. d c b a
4. c d a b
Subtopic:  Air Pollution | Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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The "blue baby' syndrome results from

1. excess of chloride

2. methaemoglobin

3. excess of dissolved oxygen

4. excess of TDS (Total Dissolved Solids)

Subtopic:  Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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Chronic exposure to arsenic causes ?

1. blue-baby syndrome

2. foot and mouth disease

3. dropsy

4. itai-itai disease

Subtopic:  Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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Minamata disease was caused due to the consumption of

1. sea food containing lot of cadmium

2. fish contaminated with mercury

3. oysters with lot of pesticide

4. sea food contaminated with selenium.

 

Subtopic:  Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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AIIMS - 2004
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Formation of non-functional methaemoglobin causes blue-baby syndrome. This is due to
(1) excess of arsenic concentration in drinking water

(2) excess of nitrates in drinking water

(3) deficiency of iron in food

(4) increased methane content in the atmosphere

 

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Which one is matched correctly?
(1) Arsenic-Black foot disease

(2) Fluoride--Itai-itai

(3) Mercury-Skeletal fluorosis

(4) Cadmium-Minamata disease

 

Subtopic:  Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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To safeguard our water resources, Government of India has passed the

(1) Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act in 1974

(2) Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act in 1981

(3) Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act in 1987

(4) Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act in 1990

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Integrated waste water treatment means

1. By utilising only artificial processes

2. By utilising only natural processes

3. By utilising both artificial and natural processes

4. By utilising advanced and more expensive means

Subtopic:  Water Pollution: II | Water Pollution |
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