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                     THE BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF VIDEO                                           GAMES  ON CHILDREN by pankaj kumar.   Parents have been worried about the effects of video games on their kids' development for a long time. Parents generally agree that playing video games takes time away from more important activities, and there are worries that violent video games may encourage violent and antisocial conduct among young players. However, a lot of psychologists and scientists think that video games do have some advantages, one of which is that they can help kids become smarter. So, how beneficial or detrimental are video games to our kids? The advantages of video games Though many parents worry about it, not all video games are bad for kids' development. Children can learn interactively through a variety of games. They assist in educating kids about a range of skills. 1 . Educate kids on problem-solving techniques and foster their creativity. Children are gi

Water pollution

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  Every other week we read of a new water pollution scandal, often after people fall sick, but sometimes because of large-scale fish die off or other adverse environmental impacts. Can we turn the tide of growing water pollution around?  Faecal coliform sample grown from water drawn from the Ganges at Varanasi. Neil Palmer/ IWMI Human sources of water degradation include household and industrial waste, agricultural chemicals, and livestock waste, which all end up in water bodies and cause pollution if untreated or not managed appropriately.  As a result of insufficient action or plain inaction, today, approximately 1 in 8 or 650 million people live in areas where water quality risks are high due to elevated levels of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and 1/6 th  and 1/4 th  of the world’s population lives in river basins where water quality risks are high due to excessive nitrogen and phosphorous loadings. Levels of agricultural and domestic BOD, nitrogen and phosphorous are elevated or