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Term

Pollution

Term

Pollution is the introduction of substances or energy into the environment, resulting in deleterious effects of such a nature as to endanger human health, harm living resources and ecosystems, and impair or interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of the environment.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution

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WATER

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