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The following human activities affect water:

1. Urban and Industrial Development: chemicals used in pharmaceutical drugs, dry-cleaning, fossil fuel mixes easily in water and affects water. The use of these chemicals increases as a result of industrialisation an urbanization.

2 Farming: nitrogen and phosporous fertilizers are used as plant nutrients to grow more crops. These plant nutrients are easily dissolved into water and drains with rainwater and snowmelt runoff to affect water streams,ponds etc.

3. Mining: mining activities also affect water.

4. Combustion of fossil fuel affects water,

5. Stream-channel alteration also affects water

6. Animal-feeding operation also a cause of water contamination.

other human activitie affecting water are land use,aerosols,irrigation etc.

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