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| Water Pollution | The contamination of streams, rivers, lakes, oceans, or groundwater with substances produced through human activities. |
| Wastewater | Water produced by livestock operations and human activities, including human sewage from toilets and gray water from bathing and washing of clothes and dishes |
| Runoff | Also known as surface runoff, is the flow of water over the ground surface when excess rainwater, stormwater, meltwater, or other sources, can no longer sufficiently rapidly infiltrate in the soil. |
| pH scale | scale used to measure the amount of acid in a substance |
| Eutrophication | Water that becomes rich in nutrients from fertilizers sparking a rapid growth of algae, algae blooms, which eventually dies, causing a depletion of dissolved oxygen which creates dead zones and die-off events for fish. |
| Bioaccumulation | a process of accumulation of chemicals in an organism that takes place if the rate of intake exceeds the rate of excretion |
| Biomagnification | The increase in concentration of a substance in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain |
| Thermal Pollution | Nonchemical water pollution that occurs when human activities cause a substantial change in the temperature of water. |
