WATER POLLUTION Ex.3. Complete the text with the words from the box.
cancer, deaths, diseases, income, interwined, lowest, pollution, poorer, premature, rights, Somalia, water

Will Pollution Cause Human Extinction?
One in six deaths worldwide is caused by l) ... . This is over 16 percent of all global deaths. Most of these 2) ... were caused by non-infectious 3) ... caused by pollution. These include heart disease, lung 4) ... and stroke. The study was published in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’. Researchers said most pollution-related deaths occurred in 5) ... countries. About 92 percent of these deaths were in low 6) ... nations, especially countries where there is a lot of economic development, such as India and China. Bangladesh and 7) ... were the worst affected countries, while Brunei and Sweden had the 8) ... numbers of pollution-related deaths.
Study co-author Karti Sandilya states: ‘Pollution, poverty, poor health, and social injustice are deeply 9) ...’. He adds: ‘Pollution threatens fundamental human 10) ..., such as the right to life, health, wellbeing, and safe work.’ Sandilya claims that air pollution is the biggest cause of death. Air pollution leads to 6.5 million 11) ... deaths per year. The second biggest killer is 12) ... pollution, which causes 1.8 million deaths on a yearly basis.
Ex.4. Put the words in brackets in the right tense or form.

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