\u00a0Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty, and suffering by 2030, economists warned citing the largest-ever database on the world’s water quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World Bank report warned of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, economies, education, and agriculture of rich and poor countries alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0This study was a huge wake-up call to us about the quality of water worldwide,\u00a0\u00bb said Richard Damania, World Bank economist and one of the study’s authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0The world tends to focus on water quantity such as floods and droughts, but this report focuses on the more invisible threats \u2014 the effects of pollutants impacting global water quality,\u00a0\u00bb Damania said. \u00ab\u00a0Pollution affects countries both rich and poor. It is just the cocktails of chemicals that change;(\u2026.) Plastics and pharmaceutical contaminants are problems everywhere.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ripple effects of consuming pollutants include childhood stunting, infant mortality, lowered economic activity, and food production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0Information is the first step,\u00a0\u00bb said Damania, in league with water rights groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0Chemical contamination such as arsenic in Bangladesh, mercury in Maputo and fluoride in parts of Kenya are major concerns,\u00a0\u00bb said Neil Jeffery, the CEO of water rights group Water Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0Clean water brings dignity. Entire communities are trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, with a lack of basic water and sanitation impacting health, school attendance and livelihoods,\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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