UN launches campaign to clean up coastal waters.

• Position: Environmental Intelligence - Brief Article

The United Nations Environment Programme has launched a campaign to clean up coastal waters by reducing the quantities of untreated sewage flowing into the seas. While much attention has been given to pollution from agricultural runoff (see "Ocean Dead Zones Multiplying," left), the largest volume of marine contamination by volume, worldwide, is from sewage. About 1 billion people now live on the world's coasts. The UN campaign will focus on coordinating human...