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The United Nations (un) has asked for immediate steps for cleaning the River Danube of wastes generated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (nato) bombing. Water from the Danube is used for drinking purposes in the downstream nations Romania and Bulgaria.

According to Pekka Haavisto, head of the United Nation Environment Programme's (unep) Balkans Task Force, although the nato bombing had not caused an environmental catastrophe in the Balkans it, however, poses a danger to the health of people living in four

Publication Date: 
14/11/1999
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Pollution Control [3], River Pollution [4], Danube [5], UN [6], UNEP [7], War [8]
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