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Since the Industrial Revolution, the efforts of removing pollutants from the natural environment have not been able to keep pace with the increasing amount of waste materials and a growing population that further aggravates the situation. This has often resulted in the transformation of lakes, rivers, and coastal waters into sewage depots where the natural biologic balance is severely upset and in some cases totally disrupted.
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Förstner, U., Wittmann, G.T.W. (1979). Introduction. In: Metal Pollution in the Aquatic Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96511-1_1
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