In the early 1970s, a trip to the beaches of Naples, Italy was a roll of the dice. The city’s coastal waters were so flush with sewage and industrial waste, that one summer nearly 20 per cent of Belgian and French tourists claimed they contracted an infectious disease after taking a dip. While the situation in Naples grabbed headlines, similar environmental disasters were unfolding across the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1970s. A combinati…
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