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noun

  • Widespread contamination of the environment that does not originate from a single, identifiable location, but rather from a diffuse area, often carried by rainfall or snowmelt runoff.

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Livestock manure and crop fertilizer are major causes of nonpoint source pollution from agriculture.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023

Cultural eutrophication and hypoxia are difficult to combat, because they are caused primarily by nonpoint source pollution, which is difficult to regulate, and N and P, which are difficult to remove from wastewater.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

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Possible Synonyms

  • area-source pollution
  • widespread contamination
  • runoff pollution
  • diffuse pollution

Possible Antonyms

  • single-source contamination
  • point source pollution
  • localized pollution
  • end-of-pipe discharge

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