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Water Pollution

 

Date = January 30, 2014
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Water pollution and degradation as a loss

  • major human impact is to loose natural capital from degradation
  • forms of pollution
  • estimates of total amount lost -
  • examples
    • South Africa double-bind
    • ground water polluted from industrial
    • surface water from agriculture - toxic cyanobacteria
  • impacts of water pollution
    • China - 40% with liver disorders - link
    • USA - link to Parkinsons -link2 - map
    • Vermont - link to ALS - link
  • Review: water amounts and pollution as a major loss

    recent article in the NYT