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Environmental Pollution of Estuaries — A Problem of Hazards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

C. L. So
C. L. So
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Geograophy and Geology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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The problem of environmental pollution of estuaries is viewed in the wider perspective, including the role of mixing, as a process common to estuaries and other systems and regulated by spatial variations. Increasing mobilization of heavy-metals and other pollutants to the estuarine environment, imparting hazards to Man in the long run, is a cause for concern and provides the reasons and bases for environmental monitoring. Already total lessons have been learnt from catastrophic outbreaks of mercury poisoning in Japan.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1978 , pp. 205 - 211
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1978

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