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Abstract
Environmental pollution is something that we face on an everyday basis, mostly due to the contamination of air, water, and soil due to urbanization and industrialization as well as population pressure on the limited natural resources (Juwarkar et al., 2010). The availability of water resources is becoming increasing scarce. The consumption and exploitation of water resources, along with exponential increase in population have caused water pollution (Ahmed et al., 2012; Seolatto et al., 2012 and Sharma et al., 2013). As water used in industry, it creates wastewater that harm our environment due to introducing various contaminants into water bodies (Surchi, 2011). Major water pollution sources are domestic, industrial, agricultural as well as solid waste pollution, thermal pollution and radioactive wastes (Ashraf et al., 2011) . Discharge of inorganic and organic pollutants into water bodies have greatly affected the ecological balance and cause harmful effects on flora and fauna (Ahmad et al., 2012).