An Emerging Pollution Problem Is from Personal Care Products (Antibiotics

question 15

Multiple Choice

An emerging pollution problem is from personal care products (antibiotics, medicines, birth control pills, etc.) that are flushed down the toilet or disposed as municipal soil waste. This kind of water pollution would be best called

• A) heat pollution.
• B) low level radioactive waste.
• C) point source pollution.
• D) nonpoint source pollution.
• E) acid precipitation.

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