Soil pollution was brought to public attention in 1978 by the Love Canal disaster. Soil pollution is defined as changes to the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil caused by human activity that degrade soil quality. Natural causes of soil pollution include landslides and hurricanes, while man-made causes include urbanization, industrial and agricultural wastes, mining, domestic wastes, and radioactive wastes. The disposal of industrial wastes on fertile lands degrades soil quality, while urban wastes can slowly poison the soil and damage its fertility. Radioactive elements in polluted soil can enter the food chain through plants.

2. FROM WHOM SOIL POLLUTION CAME INTO NOTICE:
SOIL POLLUTION DUE TO SOIL
WASTE DISPOSAL WAS BROUGHT TO
FOREFRONT OF PUBLIC ATTENTION
BY LOVE CANAL IN1978.

5. SOIL POLLUTION IS
DEFINED ASTHE CHANGE
IN PHYSICAL , CHEMICAL
AND BIOLOGICAL
CONDITIONS
OFTHE SOILTHROUGH
MAN’S INTERVENTION
RESULTING IN
DEGRADATION IN
QUALITY.

6. NATURALCAUSES MANMADE CAUSES

7. NATURAL CAUSES:
LANDSLIDES , HURRICANES ...
MAN-MADE CAUSES:
URBANISATION...
INDUSTRIAL WASTES...
MINING...
AGRICULTURAL WASTES...
DOMESTIC WASTES AND
GARBAGE...
RADIOACTIVE WASTES...

8. URBANISATION:
CONTAMINATION OF SOIL
DUE TO WASTE
WATER.UNFIT OF
AGRICULTURAL LAND DUE
TO CONSTRUCTION OF
DAMS , PROJECTS ... IN
NEAR BY PLACES.
INSUSTRIAL
WASTE:
DISCHARGE OF LARGE
QUANTITIES OF
TOXIC,FLAMMABLE,NON-
BIODEGRADABLE SUBSTANCES
ON LAND RESULTS IN SOIL
POLLUTION.

9. MINING:
MINING REFERS TO
PROCESS BY WHICH NON-
RENEWABLE SUBSTANCES
AND VALUABLE MINERALS
ARE
EXRACTED FROM EARTH.IT
LEADS TO CHANGE IN
COMPOSITION OF SOIL.
AGRICUTURAL
WASTE:
WASTES LIKE LEAVES
,GRASS... AND CHMICAL
FERTILIZERS LIKE
PESTICIDES, INSECTICIDES
FOR AGRICULTURAL

10. DOMESTIC
WASTE:
IT INCLUDES WASTES SUSCH
AS FOOD WASTES, PAPER.,
GLASS,PLASTIC MATERIALS...
CONTRIBUTE TO SOIL
POLLUTION.
RADIOACTIVE
WASTE:
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS,
NUCLEAR TESTING, AND
EXPLOSION...
ADD VARIABLE AMOUNT OF
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS TO
SOIL.

11. DISPOSAL OF INDUSTRIES WASTES ON FERTILE
LANDS DEGRADESTHE QUALITY OF SOIL.
URBAN WASTE SLOWLY POISON THE SOIL,DAMAGING
ITS FERTILITY.
RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTSTHAT PRESENT IN
POLLUTED SOIL ENTER FOOD CHAINTHROUGH
PLANTS.

12. BIODEGRADABLE WASTES USED FOR BIOGAS... AND NON-BIODEGRADABLE
WASTES MAY BE RECYCLED...
PLANTING OF TREES MUST BE ENCOURAGED...
DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS RADIOACTIVE WASTES INTO SOIL SHOULD BE
PROHIBITED...
SOLID WASTE CAN ALSO BE USED FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION...
USE OF CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES SHOULD BE MINIMISED...

15. •LAND DEGRADATION AND DROUGHT IN INDIA:
It is important to protect the land from deforestation,
fragmentation, degradation and drought. About 69% of
India's total geographical area is under dry lands
.These areas incidentally are highly populated which
makes the people impacts livelihoods directly .
An estimated 32 percent of India’s total land area is
affected by land degradation.

16. •LAND DEGRADATION IN
EGYPT:
In the Nile valley and reclaimed desert fringes, land
degradation is caused by water logging, alkalinity of
soils And soil pollution by agrochemicals and
chemicals from industry.
Lands in the eastern desert are degraded due to
water and wind degradation .
Land degradation in western desert are over
exploitation of soil groundwater resources .
Land degradation in northern coastal belts are
degraded due to overgrazing , wind ,conversion of
rangelands in rain fed croplands.

17. WHY DDT AND AGENT ORANGE
WERE BANNED..?

18. CLEAN INDIA- BE INDIA