"Mr Colvin... was also a close friend of the Prince of the Wales, and owned farms in Hampshire, woodland in Scotland and the village pub in Tangley. In March 1998 he and his farm foreman were fined £1,000 with heavy costs for polluting a village water supply with 200,000 gallons of farm EFFLUENT.
(BBC News, Thurs 24th February 2000)
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The word effluent dates from 1859 and means waste material (as smoke, liquid industrial refuse, or sewage) discharged into the environment especially when serving as a pollutant.