The most polluted rivers in the world are in Asia. Asian rivers have 20 times more lead in them than rivers in industrialized countries and they have three times as many bacteria from human waste than the global average. Source: GrinningPlanet.com
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May 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are discharged in United State’s waters each year. The US EPA (Environmental Protection Association) has warned that sewage levels in rivers could reach super-polluted levels by the year 2016. That would mean US rivers would be at the same super polluted state they were in [...]
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May 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
- The Mississippi River, which drains almost 40 percent of the continental United States, including the country’s central farmlands, carries about 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year. This is resulting in a coastal dead zone in the Gulf each summer that is approximately the size of Massachusetts [...]