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Two issues should be clearly and strictly separated from each other when considering the quality of a water source.
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Natural water quality: water characteristics as affected by natural conditions.
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Water quality as affected by human activities: changes in the original water qualities due to the human activities of urbanization, industrialization, agriculture and the building of structures.
The text of this chapter is based on Salameh (1996). Analytical results and numbers have been updated.
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Salameh E (1996) Water quality degradation in Jordan. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Amman and Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Amman, 179 p
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Salameh, E., Shteiwi, M., Al Raggad, M. (2018). Water Pollution. In: Water Resources of Jordan. World Water Resources, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77748-1_4
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