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Book/Book Chapter 
Sources of water pollution 
Speight, JG 
2020 
Butterworth-Heinemann 
Kidlington, United Kingdom 
Natural Water Remediation 
165-198 
English 
There are many sources of water pollutants for which practical solutions are required to minimize the effects of these pollutants are recent entrants into the environment as well as those pollutants that require remediation (cleaning up) past problems. In the end, there are many choices on the personal level and the societal level that must be made (consciously or not) to decrease the amount of pollution. This chapter presents the various methods by which water systems can be polluted. The effects of water pollution are described varied and include (i) poisonous drinking water, (ii) unbalanced river and lake ecosystems that can no longer support full biological diversity, as well as (iii) deforestation from acid rain. These effects are, of course, specific to the various contaminants. 
Water pollution; Acid rain; Climate change; Effects; Human health; Water-borne disease; Plant life; Phytotoxicity 
Speight, JG 
9780128038109