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The pollution destroys animals habitats and gives danger to the animals and many other things. When the pollution destroys the animals habitat, more and more animals have a risk of being endangered. Answer: Impacts on any aquatic life can be described in several categories:

Toxic:

Toxic effects are the impact of poisons on life forms. With water pollution these impacts can be realized in two distinct ways, by direct eating or adsorption of the toxin through the mouth or skin, and secondly by the ingesting of food which has accumulated poisons. This second type of intake is significant the animal is a predator and nearer the top of a bioaccumulation chain that starts with microscopic animals eating toxins on the stream or swamp bottom.

Mutagenic:

Mutagenic effects does not mean frogs changing into monsters f like in an old Scifi movie. It means that the animals develop changes at the cellular level that decrease their life spans, affect their success at breeding, cause cancers, cause deformity in the offspring or similar. These impacts are generally caused by complex organics (PAH etc) in the water or waste pharmaceuticals from sanitary sewerage reaching the water

Ecosystem related:

The impacts on the animals can result from impacts on the ecosystem. The changes and pollution can reduce the prey animals, breeding spots, hiding spots, water pH and water temperature. In addition if the pollution has impacted the normal prey of other predators they may switch to other prey as an alternative food source

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