News Headline
Cleaning the world's water: 'We are now more polluted than we have ever been'
Source
Guardian (UK)
Publication Date
2016-08-31
In May 2000, around half of Walkerton’s 5,000 residents fell severely ill and seven people died when cow manure washed into a well. The extent of the water pollution in the small Canadian town was concealed from the public, people drank from their taps and the result was ruined lives.