The second source of water pollution is indirect. Indirect sources of water pollution include contaminants that enter water supplies from soils/underground systems and from the atmosphere via rain water. Both direct and indirect sources of water pollution have a huge negative impact on the society.
Problems associated with water pollution are numerous. The first main problem that pollution can cause is poisonous drinking water. Industrial wastes, which are usually dumped in rivers and lakes, contain a lot of toxic and poisonous components. Those components do not only degrade the quality of water, but they also poison it. When large amounts of toxic materials are dumped into water, this water will become poisonous and unsuitable for human use. In case humans use this water, they’ll certainly encounter diseases such as Typhoid and Dysentery. At certain occasions, they might encounter what is even worse than theses diseases, what is meant here is death. The second main problem that pollution can cause is partially or completely destroying the ecosystems found in water.

        Destroying ecosystems leads into damaging the food chain found in water. It also leads into poisoning people indirectly. This happens when people eat fish that were poisoned as a result of the toxic materials dumped into the water.