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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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More than 200 species of birds have been documented in the waters and among the reeds and grasses of Piute Ponds, which were created by a dike made in 1961 and are kept full by treated effluent released from Lancaster's sewage treatment plant.
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