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Without water, plants and animals cannot survive. All living organisms contain water and use it externally. Water is our most precious mineral. From the beginning of history it has been the key to civilisation and development. It is the largest single controlling factor in the growth of population. The available water supply is a boundary line beyond which no society or nation, agricultural or industrial, can go. Perhaps no greater conservation problem faces mankind today than that of keeping the waters clean and maintaining adequate and qualitatively useful supplies of this natural resource.1
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Hammerton, D. (1995). Water pollution. In: Kirkwood, R.C., Longley, A.J. (eds) Clean Technology and the Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1312-0_3
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