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Water pollution ‘timebomb’ threatens global health

Simulations predict a water-pollution crisis by the end of the century.
  1. Lilly Tozer
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A young girl stands on a dirty river bank littered with garbage in the Ngaliema neighborhood in Kinshasa.

Boosting water quality will require improvements to infrastructure as populations grow, researchers say. Credit: John Wessels/AFP via Getty

Up to 5.5 billion people worldwide could be exposed to polluted water by 2100, a modelling study has found.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02337-7

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  1. Jones, E. R. et al. Nature Water https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00105-5 (2023).

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