Mercury can enter water by many different routes and processes: wet and dry atmospheric depositions particle flux to sediments dissolved species exchange at sediment/water interfaces gas exchange at air/water/surface interfaces moving dissolved species exchange and particle flux via stream and rivers dissolved species exchange via runoff from groundwater to lakes direct discharge of dissolved species via groundwater to lakes gas exchange at soil-air ion interfaces

Manmade discharges may result from industrial processes, such as: chlorine-alkali production mining operations paper mills leather tanning pharmaceutical production textile manufacture

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