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    The document discusses the importance of terrestrial water bodies and ecosystems in protecting the environment. It notes that waterbodies have come under stress from rapid urbanization. Water resource planners should recognize the dynamic relationships between ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity, and water supply and quality. Maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning is essential for economic development, quality of life, and environmental quality including water quality. Conservation of waterbodies is increasingly important as they face pollution from untreated effluents and sewage. Long-term conservation goals, operation and maintenance, and environmental awareness are needed.

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    The document discusses the importance of terrestrial water bodies and ecosystems in protecting the environment. It notes that waterbodies have come under stress from rapid urbanization. Water resource planners should recognize the dynamic relationships between ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity, and water supply and quality. Maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning is essential for economic development, quality of life, and environmental quality including water quality. Conservation of waterbodies is increasingly important as they face pollution from untreated effluents and sewage. Long-term conservation goals, operation and maintenance, and environmental awareness are needed.

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    The document discusses the importance of terrestrial water bodies and ecosystems in protecting the environment. It notes that waterbodies have come under stress from rapid urbanization. Water resource planners should recognize the dynamic relationships between ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity, and water supply and quality. Maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning is essential for economic development, quality of life, and environmental quality including water quality. Conservation of waterbodies is increasingly important as they face pollution from untreated effluents and sewage. Long-term conservation goals, operation and maintenance, and environmental awareness are needed.

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    To what extent do terrestrial water bodies still play an important role in the

    protection of the environment .


    An ecosystem is generally accepted to be an interacting system of biota and its
    associated physical environment. Ecologists tend to think of these systems as
    identifiable at many different scales with boundaries selected to highlight internal
    and external interactions.In the last few decades, waterbodies have been under
    continuous and unrelenting stress, caused primarily by rapid urbanization and
    unplanned growth.

    Water-resource planners in the study area should recognize that the relationships
    among ecosystem goods and services and water are dynamic and interactive.In
    reviewing the relationships among these services, biodiversity, and water supply
    and quality.First, maintaining and enhancing ecosystem goods and services is
    essential for the economic development and welfare of the study area, especially
    over the medium and longer terms. This stewardship will enhance the quality of
    life of the study area's inhabitants; and it will maintain environmental quality,
    including water quality. Second, to achieve such benefits, it is essential to
    maintain, and where possible, restore ecosystem structure and functioning
    (sometimes referred to as ecosystem integrity). Third, biological diversity has great
    moral, cultural, and aesthetic importance to many societies, as reflected in laws and
    international agreements that express commitments to protect it. In addition, many
    ecologists believe that maintaining biological diversity is important to sustain
    ecosystem functioning, although the information on this matter is still very sparse
    and unclear. Fourth, all these achievements require that, in plans for providing and
    allocating the study area's water resources, a balance must be struck among
    environmental, short-term economic, and other objectives. To assess these
    balances and identify appropriate tradeoffs, a significant amount of new scientific
    information will be needed.

    Still, The significance of the environment—including ecosystem services—to the


    sustainability of water supplies is often ignored in addressing the study area's
    water-resource planning. To a large degree, environmental quality refers to the
    area's ecosystems, and without the goods and services of natural ecosystems,
    sustaining supplies of high-quality water for people will be extremely difficult and
    expensive. Environmental concerns are central to sustainable water resource
    planning.They play an important role in maintaining and restoring the ecological
    balance. They act as sources of drinking water, recharge groundwater, control
    floods, support biodiversity, and provide livelihood opportunities to a large number
    of people.

    In conclusion, one of the reasons is our increasing negligence and lack of


    conservation of waterbodies. Further, waterbodies are being polluted by untreated
    effluents and sewage that are continuously being dumped into them. Thus,
    emphasis on long-term goals, operation and maintenance should be included along
    with the allocation of budget. Many studies point that a deliberate effort has to be
    made on the social front for which better publicity of the environmental benefits of
    the project and enhancing environmental awareness, especially among the local
    community is required.

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