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Keywords
Accidents
Aluminium
Chemical industry
Day
Gloves
Greenpeace activists
KWCI (GPI)
Land pollution
Masks (protective)
Measuring tools
One person
Outdoors
Protective clothing
Red
Rivers
Sampling (activity)
Testing
Toxic waste
Toxics (campaign title)
Water
Water pollution
Testing Water in Hungarian River
A Greenpeace activist collects water samples from the river Torna in Devecser, turned red because of the toxic sludge flood. The readings on the testing machine show that the PH value is very high. The toxic spill, caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant in western Hungary, killed 9 people and caused over 120 injuries.
Unique identifier:
GP027IV
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
14/10/2010
Locations:
Central Europe
,
Devecser
,
Hungary
Credit line:
© Anna Veljanovich / Greenpeace
Size:
4220px × 3168px 8MB
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
Toxic Sludge Flood in Hungary
A massive sludge flood caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant in western Hungary has affected several towns near Ajkai, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest. The sludge contains a highly toxic mixture of heavy metals. A Greenpeace team examined the causes of the toxic spill and its effects on the land, water, and air and have sent samples to two private labs for analysis. Parts of the town of Kolontár which had been evacuated is now open for citizens to move back to their houses, but the cleaning process is still not finished.
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