Climate change will make rivers in India uninhabitable for aquatic life in coming years.
According to a report published in Nature, temperatures could rise by as much as 7 degrees celsius under high emissions scenarios making aquatic life difficult by 2070-2021. The findings showed that the oxygen levels can fall from 7.9 mg/l to 7.1 mg/l. A computer model was used to predict the oxygen levels of seven Indian basins: Ganga, Narmada, Cauvery, Sabarmati, Tungabhadra, Musi and Godavari. The algorithm predicted that the dissolved oxygen levels for Cauvery, Godavari, Tungabhadra, Sabarmati, Musi, Ganga, and Narmada basins will likely decrease by 1 per cent, 3.3 per cent, 5.3 per cent, 6.4 per cent, 9.4 per cent, 12 per cent and 12.5 per cent, respectively, between 2070-2100. For every 1-degree increase in temperature, there will be about a 2.3% decline in oxygen concentration.
“A major problem related to water quality analysis and modelling has been the lack of availability of long-time series data and consistent water quality measurement datasets,” said Rehana Shaik, assistant professor at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad.
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