Water pollution
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Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers and groundwater). Water pollution occurs when pollutants are directly or indirectly discharged into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds.
Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water. In almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to the natural biological communities.
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See also
- Aquatic toxicology
- Cultural eutrophication
- Interprovincial Cooperatives v. The Queen (Supreme Court of Canada)
- Milorganite
- Nutrient pollution
- Oil spill
- Paper pollution
- Peak water (water resources planning concept)
- Trophic state index (water quality indicator for lakes)
- Watershed Central
- Streeter-Phelps equation (water quality modeling tool)
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