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the industrial equivalent of dumping your bathwater into the neighbor's koi pond.
means heated water discharged from power plants or factories into rivers and lakes, raising local water temperature enough to stress ecosystems.
from emerged as an environmental-engineering term mid-20th century, once power plants started using massive volumes of river or ocean water for cooling condensers and returning it several degrees warmer.
oxygen effectwarmer water holds less dissolved oxygen, suffocating fish
regulatory triggerhelped spark the us clean water act thermal limits
invasive perksome warm-water species thrive, outcompeting natives nearby
nuclear linknuclear plants often produce the largest thermal discharges