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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William

How animal droppings are being used to overcome the threat of polluted mine waters and save lives in the poorest parts of the world.

You heard it here first: llama dung lies at the heart of one of the more unusual solutions to a worldwide pollution problem – an idea dreamt up by Prof Paul Younger at Newcastle University.

Younger and the research team he first established in 1992 are now renowned for pioneering community-based projects to remedy water pollution in abandoned mines and similar industrial and post-industrial sites, using ecologically friendly methods.

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