Waterborne Disease On The Rise
An increase of climate-related rainfall events in the Great Lakes region may raise the public health risk for the 40 million people who depend on the lakes for their drinking water.
In a report published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a team of Wisconsin researchers reports that a trend toward extreme weather such as the monsoon-like rainfall events is likely to aggravate the risk for outbreaks of waterborne disease in the Great Lakes region.
Millions of raw sewage flowed into Lake Michigan after spring rains overwhelmed storm sewers throughout the Midwest.
October 9, 2008 6:18 AM | Category: Global Warming