Question

Water (prevention and control of pollution) Act was enacted during
A. \[1952\]
B. $1972$
C. $1974$
D. $1969$

Answer 1

Hint: Water (prevention and control of pollution) act was enacted to clean and safeguard the water bodies. Similarly, the air (prevention and control of pollution) act was passed in $1981$. The water pollution act came six before the air pollution act.

Complete answer:
In today’s general, population size is increasing enormously. Therefore the demand for sources like air, water, food, shelter, etc also increases. To fulfil the demand and for better living human beings destroying, depleting and degrading natural resources day by day. People are degrading the natural resources by polluting them.
Pollution is any unwanted changes in physical, chemical and biological quality of land, air and water. This change is caused by agents, also called the pollutant. To protect the environment, the government of India has passed the Environment Protection Act in $1986$ .
Similarly the government has also passed the Water (prevention and control of pollution) Act in $1974$ to improve the quality of water. Water is essential to all living organisms present on the earth. The water is an important source to do activities like in plants water is needed for the photosynthesis process. However human need for activities like drinking, bathing, cooking, etc.

Therefore the correct answer is option C i.e. $1974$

Note: The major source of water are rain, well, ponds, river, oceans, etc. These water bodies are polluted nowadays by the people. People are throwing all the waste in water bodies. There are many other causes of water pollution such as
> Disposal of waste like plastic, water bottles and cans.
> Pilgrimages located near the water are the most polluted one. All the waste and statues generated from those places is directly thrown into the water. The most common example is the Ganga River.
> Industrial waste and agricultural waste are thrown into water bodies.