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An estuary is a place where seawater and freshwater mix. Your tap water is treated water from which organisms and excess ions have been removed. That rain-washed all sorts of particles and chemicals into the ocean. After a few million years, it evened out and the amount of things coming into the ocean equaled the amount leaving. It's a term called equilibrium.

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