Environment
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“Nature reserves” means areas of publicly owned land, in which human intervention and construction is prohibited, managed primarily for nature conservation and providing multiple benefits and uses, such as recreation and water catchments; AG. “Natural resources” means materials that occur in nature and are essential or useful to humans, such as water, air, land, forests, fish and wildlife, topsoil, and minerals; AH. “Nature Conservation” means the conservation of nature, protection of species, ecosystems and habitats, and also the maintenance of natural ecological processes; AI. “NGOs” means Non Governmental Organizations; AJ. “Nonpoint Source” means diffuse discharges caused by precipitation moving over the ground carrying pollutants into water bodies, including agricultural and urban runoff; AK. “Open spaces” means non-developed lands or lands under limited development, separating or surrounding areas of residential, commercial, or industrial use and devoted to nature conservation, recreation or park uses; AL. “Parties” or “the Parties” means the Israeli and Palestinian governments; AM. “Pesticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the production, processing, storage, transport or marketing of food, agricultural commodities, wood and wood products or animal feedstuffs, or substances which may be administered to animals for the control of insects, arachnids or other pests in or on their bodies; AN. “Point Source” means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance from which pollutants are, or may be, discharged including, but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft. This term does not include agricultural stormwater discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture; AO. “Pollution” means contamination by pollutants of air, soil, or water; AP. “Recycling” means the recovery of waste into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes or for energy recovery;
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