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Water pollution is mainly due to realeasing of toxic chemicals into lakes rivers and streams seas which is causing aquatic life in danger Humans suffers from flourosis due to water contamination.
Water pollution occurs when harmful substances—often chemicals or microorganisms—contaminate a stream, river, lake, ocean, aquifer, or other body of water, degrading water quality and rendering it toxic to humans or the environment.
Water is uniquely vulnerable to pollution. Known as a “universal solvent,” water is able to dissolve more substances than any other liquid on earth. It’s the reason we have Kool-Aid and brilliant blue waterfalls. It’s also why water is so easily polluted. Toxic substances from farms, towns, and factories readily dissolve into and mix with it, causing water pollution.
The contamination of water by physical, chemical or biological impurities is called water pollution. Pollution causes disease. It contaminate environment and its components.