Water pollution

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006760",
  "term": "Water pollution",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Any substance or energy form (heat, light, noise, etc.) which alters the state of a body of water from what would naturally occur. Especially associated with those altered states which human value judgements have decreed as bad.",
  "synonyms": [
    "contaminants in water",
    "contamination of water",
    "water contaminants",
    "water contamination"
  ],
  "subject": "Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment",
  "see_also": [
    "pollution",
    "water footprint",
    "biochemical oxygen demand",
    "haloacetic acids",
    "Safe Drinking Water Act",
    "time-weighted average",
    "pollen rain",
    "Clean Water Act",
    "water quality",
    "whiting events",
    "vermifiltration",
    "poisonous algae",
    "fish poisons",
    "marine debris",
    "ambient water quality",
    "fish kills",
    "agricultural pollution",
    "water sampling",
    "eutrophication",
    "National Water Quality Assessment Program",
    "AGNPS model",
    "total maximum daily load",
    "environmental markets",
    "thermal pollution",
    "groundwater contamination",
    "river plume",
    "radioactively contaminated water",
    "marine pollution"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "contaminación del agua"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/water-pollution/"
}