How is the BOD of waste water related to polluting potential?
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BOD of waste water-related to polluting potential:
The process of calculating the quantity of oxygen required by microbes to break down garbage in the water supply is known as Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD).
It is a metric for the number of organic materials in water.
If there are a lot of organic wastes in the water supply, there will be a lot of decaying bacteria in the water as well.
As a result, the value of BOD will rise.
The greater the polluting potential of wastewater, the higher the BOD.