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Source: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters where they pollute the usable water supply.
Source: WWAP
Contribution of the food sector to the production of organic water pollutants:
- High income countries: 40 percent
- Low-income countries: 54 percent
Source: WWAP
Projected increases in fertilizer use for food production and in wastewater effluents over the next three decades suggest there will be a 10-20 per cent global increase in river nitrogen flows to coastal ecosystems.
Source: Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO-4)
Half of the world's wetlands have been lost since 1900.
Source: WWAP
Between 1991 and 2000 over 665,000 people died in 2,557 natural disasters of which 90 percent were water-related events.
Source: WWAP
http://www.unwater.org/statistics.html
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