Question

what is mean by thermal pollution?

Answer 1

Thermal pollution is referred to the change in ambient temperature of water due to degradation of water quality by industrial process, sewage waste, agricultural runoff, thermal power plants waste being dumped in water bodies.

Waste undergoes chemical reaction generating heat, which is released partly into the atmosphere and partly into the water body.

The sources of thermal pollution can be:

Use fossil fuels by power plants

Soil erosion

Deforestation

Use water as coolant

Answer 2

➡Thermal pollution is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature. It is the harmful release of heated liquid into a body of water or heat released into the air as a waste product of a business.⬅

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