Pig-waste pollution

Manure from intensive pig production is affecting the quality of the Belgian water supply, according to a 1998 OECD report. In Brittany, one of the wettest regions of France, pig slurry has contaminated so large an area that there is a severe water shortage. There are 12 million pigs and 3.2 million people in Brittany.

1. Underdeveloped provision of household services
2. Effluents from animal husbandry
3. Factory farming

1. Trichinosis

1. Unused livestock waste

1. Reducing nitrogen and phosphoric pollution from animal production

1. Wastage
2. Unsanitary
3. Pollution