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This is not an excuse to only drink alcohol beverage and stop showering. The fact is that an estimated 100 million Europeans lack safe and reliable water supplies. 150.000 thousand people in the EU get sick each year, contaminated by waterborne microbes and toxins.
Dr. Amparo Alfonso Rancano, from the department of Pharmacology of the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, talks to us about the danger of toxins, present in lakes and rivers, waters not treated for consumption of course.
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