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effluent

Liquid discharge of waste from an industrial process, usually into rivers or the sea. Effluent is often toxic but is difficult to control and hard to trace.

In some cases, as at Minamata, Japan, where 43 people died of mercury poisoning, effluent can be lethal but usually its toxic effects remain unclear, because it quickly dilutes in the aquatic ecosystem.



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Biologists around the world have accumulated substantial evidence of endocrine disruption in wild fish, particularly in waters receiving sewage treatment plant or kraft mill effluents (KME) (Jobling et al.
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