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The diseases caused by pollution are dependent on the materials present.

  • Some pollutants contain pathogens which cause disease
  • Heavy metals and toxic organics can poison the organism drinking the water.
  • Some organics can cause cancers and mutations in the organism and its offspring
  • Some easily decomposed organics use up the oxygen in the water suffocating aquatic animals
  • Some pH changing materials interfere with gills. skin, eggs and growth processes
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