Authors: Khyati Sharma and Anchal Garg

Wastewater that comes from the domestic sector, industrial sector, agricultural sectors many other sources consist of many pollutants like dissolved solids, nutrients, heavy metals, etc. The wastewater that reaches the water bodies ends up polluting it and threatening the lives of aquatic plants and animals.  If that water is used by humans, it ends up causing many water-borne diseases and disabilities in human beings. This toxic surface water can also reach up to the groundwater by processes such as leaching.

 

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