date:Oct 17, 2018
Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed the millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be helping to spread disease by irrigating crops with wastewater, a new study reveals.
Experts discovered that wastewater collected from canals used for urban agriculture in Burkina Faso was rich in virulent human pathogens which cause gastroenteritis and diarrhoea -- a major cause of death in low and middle-income countries.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham led an inter