Abstract

Life under water is not only part of Environmental diversity but also the source of livelihood for many and a balance-maker for environmental sustainability. In this world of technological commonality in a Global village, the relevance of ecological resources, especially the rivers, is coming to an end due to human intervention and the upholding of self-satisfactory elements of human intellect for a better standard of living. Recently, the Government of India, under the guidance of the National River Conservation Directorate, decided to initiate a project on the ecological conservation of Indian rivers, especially focusing on six rivers, including the Cauvery, Godavary, Mahanadi, Narmada, Barak, and Periyar, in order to intensively study the aforementioned rivers and analyze their ecological status for conservation planning. This includes the longest river of Kerala, the Periyar, which is a 225 km resource, starting its journey from the Sivagiri hills to the Cochin backwaters, connecting both Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and is facing aquatic pollution as an effect of Human intervention, implicating the lack of ecological resources. Thus, it is a need of the hour to have a look at how the selfish motivation and unending needs of humanity affect the biological resources, especially focusing on the Periyar river of Kerala and the impacts of the after-effects on the community that relies on this river and on the environmentally sustaining balance mechanism. The researchers tries to convey the aforementioned issues by connecting the pollution happening in the Periyar River in Kerala with the guiding light of judicial precedents and ecological reports.

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