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Where does pollution go when it rains?

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Where does pollution go when it rains?

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I unfortunately live in a very polluted area, one where air quality apps mark in red and recommend that I never get out of my lair.

When it rains enough the air quality becomes more bearable and here comes the question: where does pollution go when it rains hard? Does it get pushed to the ground and stays there? Does it get embedded in the water (so instead of breathing it, I get to drink it later in the tap water)?

I’m curious to know where it gets dispersed or stuck (to possibly avoid it)

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So pollution does indeed bind with water and gets carried around. I wonder how well chlorine helps destroy or clean such filth
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  It doesn’t. If anything, adding something as reactive as chlorine to pollution would only make it worse.

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