Global impacts of the meat trade on in-stream organic river pollution: The importance of spatially distributed hydrological conditions

In many regions of the world, intensive livestock farming has become a significant source of organic river pollution. As the international meat trade is growing rapidly, the environmental impacts of meat production within one country can occur either domestically or internationally. The goal of this paper is to quantify the impacts of the...

Organic pollution of rivers: Combined threats of urbanization, livestock farming and global climate change

Organic pollution of rivers by wastewater discharge from human activities negatively impacts people and ecosystems. Without treatment, pollution control relies on a combination of natural degradation and dilution by natural runoff to reduce downstream effects. We quantify here for the first time the global sanitation crisis through its impact...

Population and climate pressures on global river water quality

Global analysis of population growth and river water quality