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Elaborately discuss the effects of water pollution.
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Water Pollution:
- Water pollution may be defined as alteration in the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water which may cause harmful effects in human and aquatic life.
- In India, water pollution has been taking place on a large scale.
- Some of these waterborne diseases are Typhoid, Cholera, Paratyphoid fever, Dysentery, Jaundice, and Malaria.
- Chemicals in the water also have negative effects on our health.
- Pesticides – can damage the nervous system and cause cancer because of the Carbonates and organophosphere that they may contain.
- Both surface and groundwater bodies are polluted to a great extent.
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