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Thermal Pollution:


It is caused by addition of hot effluents and hot water bodies. Warm water contains less oxygen. So there is decrease in rate of decomposition of organic matter. Green algae are replaced by less desirable blue green algae. Many animals fail to multiply. Trout eggs fail to hatch while salmon does not spawm at higher temperature.

Agriculture sources.
Use of high yielding varieties of crops increased the demand for fertilizers are carried to ground water by leaching. They are also added through surface run off. Many pesticides are non-degradable. Huge amount of animal excreta-dung, piggeries are either discharged into grazing fields or dumped into pits.

These are later carried either by surface run-off or get percolated into under-grounded water. Lack of potable drinking water supply, unhygienic habits and poor waster disposal have aggravated problem of water pollution. To evade water pollution regulations and to avoid cost of treatment, industries are disposing off their wastes on ground which has lead to large scale pollution of underground water.

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