Our waterways planet wide are now highly polluted and no longer safe to drink. Consequently, the water that’s fed to us in the town supplies is replete with chlorine, fluoride and other additives to prevent us getting sick. However, there is a long term sickness cost to that. Only 40% of NZ rivers are safe to even swim in now. The Manawatu river is the most polluted river in the southern hemisphere. Someone got trench mouth from ingesting that river water. It’s contaminated with spirochetes that cause leptospirosis & lyme disease among other things (all in the article of the last link). They’ve been polluting our waterways for the past century basically and continue to do so…
“The diseases caused by impure water are numerous and fatal” says an MD … Hear what 50+ other MDs say about our need for pure distilled water — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch
Seems to me the article is trending towards ‘confusion’ :
The article states : “The Manawatu River is the most polluted river in the Southern Hemisphere”.
Stuff (we all know how one can trust Stuff), is quoted (through the links) as follows :
“The Manawatu River is one of the most polluted in the Western World, according to new research. The Manawatu tops a new pollution measurement of 300 rivers and streams across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, research by the Cawthron Institute has found.”
Goodness, can this article about river pollution get the detail right – “Southern Hemisphere vs the Western World”.
More research and detail in comparison, into the pollution of rivers, is required as to the Southern Hemisphere rivers, as rivers in Africa must be on the “endangered list” when it comes to pollution.
I may be missing something !!!!!!
The Western World usually means OECD countries, and excludes central and South America, sub-equatorial Africa, Indonesia and some other countries. We wonder whether there are polluted rivers in Indonesia and in Africa that are worse than what we have in Jacindaland.