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  • noun Plural form of effluent.

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Examples

  • Factories, including oil refineries, pulp and paper mills, and chemical, electronics and automobile manufacturers, typically discharge one or more pollutants in their discharged waters (called effluents).

    Point source pollution 2009

  • The final UN report blames a "confluence of circumstances" instead of the reality of a confluence of contaminated effluents introduced by Nepalese troops into the Artibonite River system.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Flawed Earthquake Report a Bullwhip On the Backs of Haitians Georgianne Nienaber 2011

  • Scientists have already found that mercury and other effluents from China's power plants and factories drift across the Pacific and contaminate North American waterways.

    An Inevitable Keystone Pipeline John Bussey 2011

  • She immersed herself in Annawadi's squalor and once, by accident, in the lake of effluents that abuts it.

    City of Lost Children Karan Mahajan 2012

  • Côte d'Ivoire's major environmental issues include: deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents.

    Côte d'Ivoire 2009

  • Every nuclear power plant has radioactive material - effluents - very small amounts released that are under the federal regulatory limits, said Viktoria Mitlyng, a Public Affairs Officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    Study Assessing Risk of Nuclear Plants in US State of Illinois 2011

  • Some people claim that Sterlite lets out gallons of effluents into the sea but not directly.

    Can Vedanta Find Its Soul? 2010

  • They say it has linked up its drainage pipes to those of another well-known company in the area, which eventually pours the effluents into the sea.

    Can Vedanta Find its Soul? 2010

  • They say it has linked up its drainage pipes to those of another well-known company in the area, which eventually pours the effluents into the sea.

    Can Vedanta Find Its Soul? 2010

  • My research activity is focused on understanding how natural communities respond to anthropogenic impact, particularly sewage effluents, changes in physical structure of stream habitat and the effect of alien species on ecosystems.

    Contributor: ��lvaro Alonso 2010

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