Factoid/2010/03/23
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More People Die from Polluted Water Than from All Forms of Violence, Including Wars
- "The new [United Nations] report, called Sick Water?, says some two million tons of waste, estimated to equal two or more billion tons of wastewater... is being discharged daily into rivers and seas spreading disease to humans and damaging key ecosystems such as coral reefs and fisheries. ...The report says that the sheer scale of dirty water means more people now die from contaminated and polluted water than from all forms of violence including wars." - excerpt from this United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) press release.
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