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The polluted water consists of?

  • The polluted water consists of undesirable substances that are not fit for human consumption.
  • Water pollution refers to the contamination of the water which makes it unfit for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and other purposes. The pollutants are chemicals, bacteria, parasites, and trash.
  • The major contributing factors to water pollution are industrial waste, sewage waste, slurry, animal waste, medicines, and manure. Heat contributing to water pollution is known as thermal pollution.
  • The different types of Water Pollution are:
    • Chemical pollution
    • Groundwater pollution
    • Microbiological pollution
    • Nutrient Pollution
    • Oxygen-depletion pollution
    • Surface water pollution
    • Consumption and use of contaminated water can result in water-borne diseases in human beings like cholera, typhoid, dysentery, diarrhea, and hepatitis. It also aggravates respiratory problems, heart diseases, and lung cancer.
    • Aquatic ecosystems are affected to a large extent when the wastewater that is not treated is released into the water bodies.
    • Effective solutions for water pollution include sanitation, wastewater treatment, erosion control, etc.

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