A Nonpoint Source Pollution is "Diffuse” pollution, generated from large areas with no particular point of pollutant origin, but rather from many individual places. Urban and agricultural areas generate nonpoint source pollutants.
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A Nonpoint source pollution is water pollution that can not be traced to a specific source.
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