River pollution puts 323m at risk from life-threatening diseases, says UN

Waste water, pesticide run-off and pollution threatens people across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Regulation, data and business action are neededA week before Russia’s Daldykan river was turned red by a leak from a metals plant, the UN issued a warning as chilling as it was overlooked: 323 million people are at risk from life-threatening diseases caused by the pollution of rivers and lakes.Cholera, typhoid and other deadly pathogens are increasing in more than half of the rivers in Afri