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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Owen Scott

85% of Missouri’s waterways have ‘potentially unsafe’ amounts of feces in them

Potentially unsafe levels of fecal contamination have been detected in 85 percent of Missouri’s monitored recreational waterways, according to a report.​

The findings, which came just days after the Missouri Department of Natural Resources warned of high E.coli levels in Big River, have raised concerns about the safety of waterways in the state.

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