A Practitioner’s Guide For Ocean Wastewater Pollution Ocean Sewage Alliance (2021)
Ocean wastewater pollution is serious, pervasive, and overlooked. Ignoring ocean wastewater pollution has consequences which threaten local and national economies, public health, fisheries, and coastal security, and can even amplify the impacts of climate change. Efforts to improve ocean health have most recently focused on establishing marine protected areas, improving fisheries management, and restoring coastal habitats. However, all this work is dependent on good water quality in order to succeed. By continuing to ignore the threat of ocean wastewater pollution, we put our past and future investments at risk. While there is significant interest from conservation practitioners to address this threat—because the problem has been neglected—there is minimal guidance on how to proceed. This report synthesizes what we know about the impacts of ocean wastewater pollution, provides a primer for those unfamiliar with management of human waste and the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH), and points to opportunities to address the threat so both people and oceans benefit.
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Ocean Sewage Alliance (2021). A Practitioner’s Guide For Ocean Wastewater Pollution Ocean Sewage Alliance
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