{"id":3782,"date":"2019-07-16T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"smart-wastewater-management-can-help-reduce-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/16\/smart-wastewater-management-can-help-reduce-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Wastewater Management Can Help Reduce Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By The UN Environment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavily polluted urban waterways emit toxic gases such as\nmethane and nitrous oxide which are also greenhouse gases, and a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2019\/research\/antibiotics-found-in-some-of-worlds-rivers\/\">global study<\/a>&nbsp;found\nthat concentrations of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/antimicrobial-resistance-environmental-pollution-among-biggest\">antibiotics<\/a>&nbsp;in\nsome of the world\u2019s rivers exceed safe levels by up to 300 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one wants pollution and there is growing awareness\nabout the danger it poses. In September 2017, Member States of the United\nNations adopted the report&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11822\/21800\/UNEA_towardspollution_long%20version_Web.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">Towards a pollution-free planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile the world has achieved significant economic growth\nover the past few decades, it has been accompanied by large amounts of\npollution, with significant impacts on human health and ecosystems and the ways\nin which some of the major earth system processes, such as the climate, are\nfunctioning,\u201d it says. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/smart-wastewater-management-can-help-reduce-air-pollution\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The UN Environment Heavily polluted urban waterways emit toxic gases such as methane and nitrous oxide which are also greenhouse gases, and a recent&nbsp;global study&nbsp;found that concentrations of&nbsp;antibiotics&nbsp;in some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}