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Child touching herbicide-contaminated water being used to clean WfW personal protective equipment

The South African Working for Water (WfW) program is a national government-wide initiative that hires unemployed members of poor, marginalized communities to use herbicides for the removal of alien invasive plant species. (Source: Pududu BA, Rother HA. Whose jurisdiction is home contamination? Para-occupational 'take-home' herbicide residue exposure risks among forestry workers' families in South Africa. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021;18[19]:10341. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)