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Today, the most important problem of every industry is how to tackle the wastewater? There are many researchers work on it; several methods are introduced to reduce the pollution due to wastewater, which is caused by many industrial processes. Recently, algae have become significant organisms for biological purification of wastewater since they are able to accumulate plant nutrients, heavy metals, pesticides, organic and inorganic toxic substances and radioactive matters in their cells/bodies. In this research work, microalgae samples were collected from local river and cultivated in different media solutions. Fully-grown algae was used to treat the wastewater collected from local industries. Microalgae treatment of wastewater reduces the BOD, COD, TDS, TSS, and TS. The percentage reduction of BOD, COD, TSS, TDS, and TS was 86-92%, 82-88%, 60-66%, 47-53%, 45-53% respectively. Ammonium nitrogen reduced to 78-82% and total nitrogen content reduced to 77-83% by the algal treatment on wastewater. The pH is also changes from acidic nature to neutrality.