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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