Chapter 5 - Water Vocabulary

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Environmental Science - Holt, Rinhart and Winston, 2000

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P

point pollution

pollution that is discharged from a single source such as a factory, a wastewater treatment plant or an oil tanker; it is relatively easy to regulate an controlled and is easily identified and traced, not always easy to clean up