“Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers and groundwater). Water pollution occurs when pollutants are directly or indirectly discharged into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds.
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Water Pollution
Melaka River turns black, smelly, with dead fish, due to suspected pollution
Published 3 months ago on 20 May 2019 MELAKA, May 20 — Pollution has caused the water in Melaka River to turn black and foul-smelling, with dead fish, since yesterday, especially in Taman Rempah here. Melaka Health and Anti-Drugs Exco, Low Chee Leong said the pollution was detected to be from the Batu Hampar Dam in Batu Berendam […]
India’s sixth biggest city is almost entirely out of water
By Jessie Yeung, Helen Regan and Swati Gupta, CNN Updated 2004 GMT (0404 HKT) June 19, 2019 Srini Swaminathan, who took this photograph of Chembarambakkam reservoir from a plane, told CNN: “I have been living here since 1992 and have never seen anything like this before.” New Delhi (CNN)The floor of the Chembarambakkam reservoir is cracked open, […]