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This is a chapter in Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: the Basic Science of Poisons dealing with water and soil pollutants. It covers questions of the introduction, fate, transport, and ultimate effects on non-target organisms of various anthropogenic chemicals introduced into either soil or water. Of particular importance is the question of the interaction of soil and water systems vis-a-vis a particular introduced chemical. Groups of chemicals considered in the chapter are pesticides, trihalomethanes, trichloroethylene and related compounds, aromatic halogenated compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorophenols, dioxins, phthalate ester plasticizers, metals and metalloids, inorganic nitrates, phosphates, and fluorides, and asbestos. Waste disposal issues and the chemodynamics of xenobiotics in the environment are also considered.