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Groundwater is the only source of water supply for millions of people, and thus its contamination has major health- and nonhealth-related impacts. A study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), U.S. Congress (1984), identified several categories of causes, sources, and impacts of groundwater contamination (see Table 1).
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Haimes, Y.Y. (1989). The Consideration of Risk and Uncertainty in the Management of Groundwater Contamination. In: Jousma, G., Bear, J., Haimes, Y.Y., Walter, F. (eds) Groundwater Contamination: Use of Models in Decision-Making. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2301-0_6
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