A. Environmental pollution has adversely affected lives of people – be it through the air they breathe or the water they drink. B. It is a matter of regret that some of our most profitable industries have seriously impacted on the environment causing permanent damage. C. One of the great products of forest in India are the 300 rivers and perennial streams that are not just born within but flow out to provide drinking water and irrigation for large tracts of land. D. As forests have been excessively exploited great negative changes have taken place in our water regimes both underground and overground, thereby depicting that an environmental catastrophe is about to tear the country apart and millions will suffer.