Thermal pollution is the alteration of natural water temperatures from waste heat generated by industrial processes. Major sources include power plants and manufacturing cooling operations. Effects of thermal pollution include ecological imbalance by limiting biological processes, decreasing dissolved oxygen levels which can kill fish, and accelerating the greenhouse effect and global warming by adding hot water vapor to the atmosphere.

7. Thermal /
Heat Pollution

8. Thermal /
Heat Pollution
Is the act of altering the
temperature of a natural water
body, which may be a river, lake
or ocean environment. This
condition chiefly arises from the
waste heat generated by an
industrial process.

9. Major Sources of
Thermal pollution
Fossil-fueled electric power plants
Nuclear-fueled electric power-generating
facilities
Cooling operations associated with
industrial manufacturing
Earth’s surface temperature
Carbon Dioxide as product of combustion
adding to the greenhouse gases
Hot water vapor

10. Effects of
Thermal Pollution
Thermal changes affect
Ecological Contributes Accelerates
imbalance
the Decreases aquatic the system ability
to
by
greenhouse resulting in effect major fish
limiting chemical-of the or water changing biological
to hold
that
the
kills results near the discharge
type dissolved of processes
fish in that oxygen
global
grow
and reproduce warming
source
in water