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Waste Dumping Into Ocean

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Blackened wastewater flows from a drainpipe into the ocean. Surveys of ocean water find staggering amounts of human sewage, domestic wastewater, factory outflow, farm chemical runoff, oil spills, and nuclear waste from power plants.
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