What is water pollution? Water pollution occurs when organisations, industry, agriculture or individuals extract water or discharge substances into water bodies in ways that affect the hydrological cycle and cause negative effects on humans or wildlife. This could be by affecting drinking water, dirtying water that humans come into contact with, or causing toxicity to…
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What is air pollution? Air pollution occurs when activities by humans causes the release of substances, vibrations, noise, light or heat into the surrounding environment, where these emissions cause harm to people and wildlife or damage to property or amenities used by people. In terms of substances, these usually take the form of chemicals, particulate…
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