Are animals affected by water quality?
Just as humans animals also get adversely affected by poor water quality. High phosphorus and nitrogen content in a waterbody encourages algae growth which produce toxins. Animals drinking water from such streams or rivers either reduce their water intake or get ill, resulting in poor production and profit loss. Organic wastes in the water body can introduce pathogens like giardia and cryptosporidium, which are hazardous to animal health and can sometime cause death. Other inorganic elements from pesticides and fertilizer application from agricultural lands can enter the water sources and cause ill-effects on consumption from the animals.
