Understanding water quality
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# 3 The extent of water pollution

Water may become polluted by discharges (e.g. from sewage works or industry), overland flow (e.g. from farmland) or incidents (e.g. rupture of a farm slurry tank).We will start by looking at surface water pollution, then consider groundwater pollution.

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