Raw Sewage and Rio ’16 by Dave Granlund

by Guest Contributor | Aug 9, 2015 | EarthDesk Sunday | 0 comments

Raw Sewage and Rio '16. Dave Granlund via Cagle Cartoons.

Raw Sewage and Rio ’16. Dave Granlund via Cagle Cartoons.

Ed Note: The World Health Organization has demanded testing of all water venues for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro following an Associated Press investigation that revealed “athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill.”

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Dave Granlund’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, GateHouse Media, Cape Cod Times, Newsday and magazines such as Newsweek. Also shown nationally on FoxNews.com, MSNBC.com, HBO, PBS, NPR, CNN and NBC’s Today Show.

His newspaper honors include awards from: UPI, New England Press Association, International Association of Business Communicators, Bronze Quill Award IABC; Associated Press, Massachusetts Press Association and New England Press Award. His work has been entered numerous times for the Pulitzer Prize.

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