~40% of America's rivers are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life.
~Asian rivers are the most polluted in the world. They have three times as many bacteria from human waste as the global average and 20 times more lead than rivers in industrialized countries.
~Diseases caused by the ingestion of water contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites include cholera, typhoid, dysentery and other diarrheal diseases.
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