Chapter 5 

 POLLUTION IN THE ESTUARINE ZONE 



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Man has always used the biophysical environment as he needed it for 

 survival and thrown back into it his waste products and anything else 

 he did not need. As long as civilization was limited to small towns 

 and villages the impact of such treatment on the environment was not 

 noticeable and apparently insignificant. With the development of a 

 civilization based on a complex socioeconomic environment, however, 

 his impact on the estuarine environment has increased until now the 

 most accurate term to exDress the relationship of man to the biophy- 

 sical environment is "pollution". 



