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What is environmental pollution? How many types of pollution are encountered?

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Environment pollution is defined as the addition of any external material like organic , Inorganic biological, radio logical (or) any change in nature which in nature which may harm (or) affect bably the living organism directly (or) indirectly , immediately (or) slowly.
`to` The types of pollution encountered are the following :
(1) Air pollution .
(2) Water pollution .
(3) Soil pollution .
(4) Oil pollution .
(5) Noise pollution etc.
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