CONSEQUENCES OF WATER POLLUTION

all kinds of water pollution is harmful to the health of animals and humans. water pollution does not hurt humans or animals health straight away, it will affect their healths after they are expose to it for a long period of time. they are different forms of water pollutants that affect animal's and human's health in different ways written below:

• heavy metal produce during the industrial processes can gather up in nearby water bodies. there are poisonous to health of marine life like fish and shellfish, and then harm people who consume them. heavy metal can slow development, result in birth defects and some are carcinogenic (deathly).
• waste produce from industries often contains many poisonous compounds that harms the health of the marine life and those who consume them. some of this poisonous compund may be not be fatal but others can be. they can cause immune suppression, reproductive failure or acute poisoning.
• microbial pollutants found in sewages causes infectious diseases that affect marine life and humans who drink this water. microbial water pollution is a huge problem in well developed countries, with illnesses such cholera and typhoid fever being the primary cause of infant mortality (death).
• organic matter and nutrients result to increase reproduction of aerobic algae and the volume of oxygen will decrease in the water. this results to suffocation of marine life such as fish and other aquatic organisms that requires oxygen.
• sulphate particles resulted from acid rain may harm the health of marine life if it contaminates water bodies and can result in mortality (death).
• suspended particles in freshwater reduces the quality of drinking water for humans and marine life. suspended particles could also block some of the sunlight to reach the aquatic plants beneath them, causing the process of photosynthesis to be disrupted and it also affect the growth of other micro-organisms.