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All the places where the Centers for Disease Control says you can’t drink the water

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All the places where the Centers for Disease Control says you can't drink the water

Key facts:

  • Only 3 percent of the Earth’s water can be used as drinking water.
  • Less than 25 percent of the population using piped drinking water on premises
  • 783 million people don’t have access to safe fresh water…
  • 3.5 million people die each year from water-related diseases
  • Roughly 95 percent of sewage in the developing world is dumped directly into rivers, lakes and coastal waters.
  • 80 percent of China’s rivers are too toxic for fish – let alone people.
  • 75 percent of industrial waste in the developing worlds is discarded directly into rivers, lakes and coastal waters
  • 71 percent of U.S. cities contains higher levels of the carcinogenic chemical hexavalent-chromium that lawmakers recommend.
  • 67 percent of water near major poultry farms contain antibiotics.
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Topaz
Topaz
1 year ago

“Roughly 95 percent of sewage in the developing world is dumped directly into rivers, lakes and coastal waters.”
And also in some fully developed nations, such as the United Kingdom, where the public are currently fighting sewage corporations to get them to stop sewage out on the coast where we fish and *swim*.

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