noun
thermal pollution
Environmental term referring to the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature, typically from industrial discharge.
工場からの温排水が熱汚染を引き起こしている。
Warm wastewater from the factory is causing thermal pollution.
熱汚染は水生生物に深刻な影響を与える。
Thermal pollution has a serious impact on aquatic life.
Air pollution; 熱汚染 is limited to thermal effects on water bodies.
Compound of 熱 (netsu, 'heat') and 汚染 (osen, 'pollution'), a direct calque of English 'thermal pollution'.