Study says your reusable water bottle is dirtier than a toilet seat Your reusable water bottle might look harmless—just a trusty sidekick for RV road trips, workouts, and around the house. But according to a recent Purdue

www.rvtravel.com/study-reusab... Bottles can carry bacteria like staph and strep, and fecal-related #coliforms showed up in more than 20% of samples. That’s a red flag. For people with weaker #immune systems, the risks are even higher. Rinsing alone won’t evict bactaria—you’ve got to scrub

Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world Mexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment

📄 A 2020 study published in our journal #BioRisk (see: doi.org/10.3897/bior...) that detected #coliforms in 10/10 #cenotes in Cancun referenced in a new story on @theguardian.com about the imact of pig mega-farms on the #Yucatán forest.

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Faecal coliforms and pathogenic bacteria in borehole water and household storage in Ekalakala Ward, Machakos County, Kenya | African Journal of Science, Technology and Social Sciences

Faecal coliforms and pathogenic #bacteria in #borehole #water &household storage Ekalakala Ward Machakos County Kenya African Journal of Science, Technology and Social Sciences journals.must.ac.ke/index.php/AJ... #Faecal #coliforms r #WaSH good but addresses problem but not the underlying cause?