Untreated animal excreta

The excrement of domestic animals in cities and in the countryside is increasingly posing pollution problems.

In industrialized countries, the problem of horse dung in cities prior to the advent of motorized transport has been replaced by dog turds. Animal excrement in the streets and other public places and in domestic situations continues to be a problem in many less-developed countries.

1. Organic wastes
2. Lack of sanitation in rural areas
3. Inadequate disease vector control
4. Effluents from animal husbandry

1. Insalubrity of animal excrement in urban environments

1. Pollution of water by infected faeces
2. Domestic animals as carriers of animal diseases
3. Cryptococcosis
4. Animal vectors of disease

1. Unsanitary and inhumane food animal conditions

1. Threatened species of Sphaeroceridae
2. Threatened species of Geotrupidae

1. Reducing nitrogen and phosphoric pollution from animal production
2. Cleaning up dog excrement from pavements

1. Pollution