UMESH CHANDRA BENERJEE, J.

( 1 ) POPULATION growth and modern technological developments by themselves pose a great threat to the very existence of living and non-living organisms - this is not confined to a particular region, but it has crossed transnational frontiers. In 1972 the Stockholm Conference under the auspices of the United Nations did deliberate upon the issues of protection of human environment. The Habitat Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1976 and the World Water Conference at Argentina in 1977 recorded a detailed discussion as regards the water pollution. It is not out of place to mention that water pollution along with the pollution in the air and the noise pollution are in a much higher degree in the metropolitan centres than in the rural sectors and as such population influx and technological developments can be ascribed to be the two basic factors for such environmental degradation. The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute has confirmed that levels of sulphur dioxide and other particulate matters in big cities have exceeded the permissible limits as prescribed by the World Health Organisation (W. H. O. ).

( 2 ) WHILE it is true that in a

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