Question

Name the most common indicator of pollution of a water body by disease causing microbes ​

Answer 1

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Commonly used indicator bacteria include total coliforms, or a subset of this group, fecal coliforms, which are found in the intestinal tracts of warm blooded animals. Total coliforms were used as fecal indicators by public agencies in the US as early as the 1920s.

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Answer 2

Common indicator of water pollution by disease causing microbes

Explanation:

• Bacterias like E.coli and fecal  coliform indicates water pollution done by human and animals.

• Vibrio cholera is a bacteria that is present in water body may create disease like cholera.
• Giardia and Cryptosporidium are zoonotic agents that causes infectious parasitic disease like giardiasis and cryptospodiosis disease by contaminating water and thus causes water pollution.
• Sewage that is dumped in water body contain filamentous bacteria as well as fungi and protozoa that creates polluted water. some important bacteria are- Sphaesolilus nantans, Fusarium aquaeductuum etc