find out the sources of water bodies in the locality and determine the quality of water.
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Direct sources include effluent outfalls from factories, refineries, waste treatment plants etc.. that emit fluids of varying quality directly into urban water supplies. ... Indirect sources include contaminants that enter the water supply from soils/groundwater systems and from the atmosphere via rain water.
Answer: Some of the sources of water that can be found around your locality can be tubewell, handpump, tap water from municipality or from tankers. In order to check the quality of that water, one can do two types of tests. First is through physical verification i.e. looking at the colour of water, smelling it to check if there is an odour, to check the presence of any germs and insect. Secondly, we can check the presence of total dissolved solubles with the help of a TDS meter.
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