The highest ARG abundances were detected in industrially polluted Indian sediments and in hospital and WWTP effluents from UK and Singapore. Lower levels of ARGs were detected in sediments and river water downstream of a hospital as well as WWTP effluent discharge points, in line with the diluted...
America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and southern-eastern Europe. Most susceptible countries for the main rice season are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, South-Southeast Asia, and secondarily in the U.S. and Australia, with most concerned lands (medium to very high susceptibility) covering around 208...
Archaeological evidence shows that primitive toilets using river water to flush wash away waste are over 5000 years old and date back to ancient Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BCE. The two inventors who have the best claim to our modern toilet-flushing system were born hundreds of years ...
In their struggle against “pollution,” they strictly control their diet, sexual habits, breathing, and even their urination and defecation. While the religious aspects of Turkish and Iranian “houses of strength” (where weightlifting and gymnastics were practiced) became much less salient in the ...