What are the threats the estuary faces?
Threats to an estuary is a threat to our lives (also many other organisms on the earth).
Ever increasing huge human population that is settling around estuaries and misusing them in many ways:
disposing sewage and household wastes
disposing dangerous industrial effluents with hazardous chemicals into estuaries
using shallow water estuaries for agricultural and aquacultural purposes
constructing barricades and dams
heating up earth’s atmosphere by pumping out greenhouse gases more and more, thereby inviting sea level rise, which will engulf the estuaries and deltas
collecting all the larval fishes and shrimps for the aquaculture farms – overexploitation of the fishery resources